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South Dunedin cat Bogart can still lay claim to being the oldest cat in town, as definitive proof of age eludes several other contenders.

The Outram Playcentre is ''seriously close to being closed'' because of a lack of children and parents to run it.

Information technology and the aged-care sector are expected to continue to be big growth industries in Dunedin over the next 15 years, but the city's future prosperity could go either way, a group of business academics say.

Competition in the student rental market is heating up with more than 100 properties still available in traditional student areas.

Some Tahuna Intermediate School pupils and their teacher are hoping to make Anzac Day extra special for veterans this year.

A project to link Mosgiel and Dunedin with a cycle and walkway by using abandoned train tunnels could be moving up the Dunedin City Council's priority list this year.

The former Karitane Home for Babies - built in 1938 - is itself being reborn and has also been entered on the New Zealand Heritage List/Rarangi Korero as a Category 1 historic place.

Descendants and family members of Otago Peninsula soldiers who died in World War 1 will gather around their memorial again today.

A group advocating the reopening of old train tunnels as a cycle route between Mosgiel and Dunedin is questioning the Dunedin City Council's priority list.