David Loughrey

Musician Peter Gutteridge, an early member of 1980s Dunedin Sound bands the Clean and the Chills, has died in Auckland.

Housie is thought to have begun in Italy in the 1500s, before migrating through Europe, played by the French aristocracy along the way. Not to be outdone, South Dunedin is a stronghold of the local housie hustle. David Loughrey travels to the flat to bear witness, and discovers a fast game is a good game.

The low sun of a winter Wednesday fell on the Exchange and the warehouse precinct this week. David Loughrey visited an area struggling with the labour pains of rebirth and found decay, renewal and the failings of a city.

A strangely popular Dunedin Facebook site is collecting the memories of a small southern city. David Loughrey meets the collector.

Cooked meals for Dunedin's elderly at the Octagon Club have been served for the last time, ending possibly more than six decades of the service.

Work is intensifying on Dunedin's Caversham Valley safety improvement project, as new images and plans for walking and cycle access have been released for a bridge being built at Lookout Point.

Andy Cunningham ran a half-marathon yesterday, then got back out later in the day to walk his dog.

A slow day on a fishing boat halfway between New Zealand and the Chatham Islands gave a Dunedin photographer the chance he needed to capture an award-winning shot.

Autospectacular organising committee chairman Kevin Casey checks out a Mustang convertible at the Edgar Centre in Dunedin.

Dunedin's $2 shops and bargain outlets dot the city's retail area, home to a bounty of often plastic forms moulded into objects weird, wonderful and sometimes insane. Some are all those things at once but all are cheap. David Loughrey took some coins and found a world of products that ranged from evil to incomprehensible.

After more than 50 years of quarrying, and a corresponding period of vocal opposition to the destruction of the landmark, the future of Saddle Hill lies in the hands of one High Court judge.

A hearings panel considering the future of Dunedin's bus service gave a clear message yesterday controversial changes to the Brockville route will be reconsidered.

The top has been cropped, and a compromise has allowed Kurtis back in class.

Brockville residents say a plan to alter their bus route and change its frequency will make it much harder to access city facilities.

The Tourism Industry Association says the company that ran the helicopter that crashed on Mt Alta near Wanaka on Saturday has been working with the association on safety guidelines.

The company that owns John Wickliffe House has baulked at the idea of being forced to spend what it says is five times more than it planned to repair the building.

Work has started on a $380,000 wall in Brown St, Dunedin, after the previous one was brought down last year when rain caused significant landslips in Dunedin.

The guitar made by Dunedin man Peter Madill was already a work of art.

A hot day in winter, the vagaries of the racetrack and the complexities of the Totalisator Agency Board almost cost David Loughrey $20 this week. He went to bear witness to the lure of the greyhound and the mind-set of the gambling man. Only the absurdities of luck saved the day.