Brenda Harwood

After almost 20 years in the role of Arts Festival Dunedin director, Nicholas McBryde is stepping down to allow the festival to take a new direction.

It is the end of an era for the Otago Community Trust, as grants manager Carol Melville steps down after 30 years with the trust.

Three months after taking delivery of three shipping containers, the Green Island Shed continues to take shape.

It has been a long journey from living in state care to receiving a national award for young Dunedin woman Kered Taylor.

Dunedin man Tony Cummings is back to ‘‘business as usual’’ after being diagnosed with bowel cancer through a screening test and successfully treated.

The buzz of Christmas cheer will fill the Dunedin Town Hall for the fifth time as an army of volunteers gears up for the popular annual Dunedin Community Christmas Dinner.

Thousands of white crosses, which have stood in Queens Gardens as a silent reminder of the Otago-Southland men who died in World War 1, have been removed.

Two Dunedin theatre practitioners have been selected as the first students in a prestigious, national directing course.

Authorities will patrol three Dunedin beaches this summer to educate the public about new rules banning vehicles from beaches.

The NZ Transport Agency has moved to undertake its promised review of the 50kmh speed limit on George St, Port Chalmers, and will complete it before Christmas.

Greater collaboration with social agencies, new premises at street level and finding new ways to teach skills are all on the cards for Supergrans in Dunedin.

Patients at Otago Community Hospice who wish to record their life stories for posterity are being supported by the newly re-established Biography Services Team.

The results of a detailed study of the activity levels and transport habits of 1000 adolescents across rural Otago and Southland have been revealed.

Six months on from the demise of the Fortune Theatre, the voluntary group that has supported it since 1976 has wound up.

A popular project to connect artists and other creative groups with vacant inner-city spaces has been re-launched this month.

Helmets are almost off the hook when it comes to reasons why most Dunedin adolescents do not ride bikes to school, a study shows. But not entirely.