The city's newest tourism promotion was a ‘‘tremendous initiative'', Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin said when presented with his own Dunedin passport yesterday.
Mr Chin was the first recipient of a Love the Dunedin Difference Passport at yesterday morning's launch of a Tourism Dunedin campaign to mobilise residents as hosts promoting the city's many attractions.
The Bowling Green Tavern in Dunedin is being kitted out for a frontline role in the fight against swine flu.
The big players in New Zealand's electricity market have ruled out any drop in the price of power to domestic consumers.
‘‘We have fantastic insurance policies, but our husbands say if we were taken hostage the kidnappers would let us go after an hour - that's all they would be able to stand,'' Daphne Kalinowski says with a great laugh.
A Dunedin tech company less than a year old has signed a contract to provide online financial planning services to a potential 18.5 million people worldwide.
Southern region Parents Centres, including in Gore, are calling for an increase in the funding that District Health Boards (DHBs) elsewhere in New Zealand provide for childbirth education.
A strong concern for social justice has led musician Kristy Hanna to undertake a South Island tour on behalf of aid agency Tear Fund.
Eastern Southland drivers have been commended for their safe approach.
A sizeable bequest has surprised and delighted Presbyterian Support Otago chief executive Gillian Bremner.
Money given through a person's will is becoming a more important component of the funding mix for charity organisations.
The current economic downturn provides greater opportunities for generosity, community and voluntary sector organisations say.
Charity organisations need to diversify their funding sources in order to ride out the economic storm, fundraiser Lisa Wells says.
Minister for Social Development and Employment Paula Bennett has praised the initiative charity groups are showing.
Dunedin City Council and the police will continue to operate inner-city ‘‘mosquito and music boxes'' to deter anti-social behaviour during winter.
Dunedin's harbourside cycleway may miss out on funding when the government announces its land transport priorities next month.
Flight attendant Daniel Morriss (29) enjoys his jet-setting lifestyle but dreams of a quieter life closer to home.
Dunedin man Matthew Crane has cut off his dreadlocks to help eradicate the sort of loss experienced by the family of the late Jean-Philippe Dufour.
On Monday, Dunedin city councillors voted 10-4 to sign a contract with Hawkins Construction to build the $198 million Otago Stadium.
A Princes St retailer says he cannot understand why the city council will let fundraisers sell traditional hangi food, but will not let him.
A city council plan to get rid of its annual $1 million social housing building budget has concerned social service groups.
Former Dunedin actor Danny Mulheron is back in town to promote a film about his grandfather, German Jewish composer Richard Fuchs.