David Loughrey

Dunedin's i-Site visitor centre is back in the Octagon, reopened in a new collaboration with the Department of Conservation (Doc).

The Dunedin City Council's Wall Street mall could soon be on the market as the city gears up to consider asset sales.

The state of Dunedin's health sector turned out to be a strong drawcard for Labour at a meeting in Dunedin yesterday.

Art, music or literature should be on offer soon in empty retail spaces in Dunedin, with a Wellington not-for-profit organisation introducing its project for rejuvenating underused CBD sites to the city.

If the Port Chalmers Seafood Festival had a popularity contest for marine life forms, crayfish and whitebait, or their taste perhaps, would have won hands down.

These are the facts.

From a small city with a solidly built facade, DavidLoughrey heads north though mist, motorways and rolling meadows to find a small township with a solidly built facade. Through a heavy mist he glimpsed some strange sights, but learned a lesson in staying quiet.

A relationship break-up and time on her hands has resulted in a Dunedin designer rekindling her creative urge and landing a spot in the World of WearableArts awards finals in Wellington, which start this week.

Torture is an ineffective way to gather information, a fact governments who use it are fully aware of.

Little Sucker has been crashed through locked gates, contaminated with diesel, had one of its windows smashed and its proud Otago colours roughly painted over.

There is plenty of time to think while you are running a half marathon.

An Otago Polytechnic fashion designer has seen his career ''sped up'' by his inclusion in hit United States reality series Project Runway.

It was transported by recalcitrant truck drivers and put together by hard men in the Great Depression to sate the thirst of a worried city. It is the Deep Creek pipeline, an engineering marvel that springs from a frozen fold in the earth. David Loughrey investigates.

Tourism is continuing to provide solid returns in Dunedin, with figures showing last year was the best in five years for hotels.

Described by an Air New Zealand pilot as ''the go-kart of the skies'' - a powerful plane pilots loved to fly - the company's 737 fleet has flown its last commercial flight in this country.

Helping to broaden people's world views and improve their attitudes to others, in a sometimes warlike world, could be one response that would help the cause of peace, a visiting rabbi says.

Work at Dunedin's St Clair Beach to shore up a temporary boat ramp has succumbed to the waves after a week, but the contractor will pay to fix it.

Eight months' work that included input from about 90 people resulted in a performance that packed the College of Education auditorium in Dunedin on Saturday for a night of Malaysian culture.

It weighs close to 200kg, drops at a rate of four metres per second, and will be one of the stars when the Phantom of the Opera takes to the stage at the Regent Theatre next week.