A 100-tear-old autograph book belonging to the daughter of the then manager of Dunedin's Grand Hotel, and containing several notable entries has been brought back to Dunedin.
Police have confirmed they are investigating a death threat against Stop the Stadium president Bev Butler.
He might be "just a kid from Bayfield High", but film-maker Daniel Borgman is on the cusp of international fame after his film was selected this week for the world's most famous film festival.
A North Island intellectual property law firm's pro-bono offer to help get the generic beer-style term radler struck off as a registered trademark, taking on DB Breweries in the process if necessary, has been welcomed by the small Dunedin brewery ordered to stop making radler-style beer by the giant brewery earlier this year.
While Anzac Day is about honouring the dead, it is also an important way for younger generations to hear about what war was like, a Dunedin World War 2 veteran says.
A 77-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman remain in a serious condition in Dunedin Hospital after possibly drinking a chemical used for cleaning beer lines at the Waikouaiti RSA last Friday.
Syd Herriott has not missed a dawn parade since coming home from the war - and losing his medals, poor eyesight and a few health "hiccups" are not going to stop him now.
A special wreath will be placed at the foot of the Dunedin Cenotaph today.
The sound of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Beech King Air B200 aircraft will be heard in the skies of the South tomorrow during flypasts to coincide with Anzac Day services.
The Ohakea-based No 42 Squadron would undertake the series of flypasts, a spokeswoman said.
The proximity of Poppy Day and Anzac Day this year is stretching posy-making and poppy-selling resources.
An incident on Monday in which a crane weighing at least 20 tonnes toppled on to the visitor and education centre under construction at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary will not delay completion of the building, says the contractor.
A community patrol could be operating in Mosgiel within a few months after a flood of interest following a call for volunteers.
Superintendent Grant O'Fee, of the New Zealand Police, will be guest speaker at Dunedin's Anzac Day dawn service.
The parents of a Dunedin teenager who died when she took methadone on top of oxycontin have called for a label to be added to methadone warning of the danger of taking it with other painkillers.
When her 1966 Remington typewriter finally gave up the ghost last year, 99-year-old Eva Carr bought herself a laptop.
Finding love against the odds is one thing, but when one person can't walk or talk and the other lives in England, there are plenty of reasons why it might not work out.
Dunedin city leaders have criticised Air New Zealand following the latest reductions in transtasman flights from Dunedin.
Sixty years' service to the Women's Institute could become a rare honour, with younger members of the organisation still approaching their 60s.
James Cessford had been a happy and confident young man with everything to look forward to, his family said.
Reaction at the Otago Farmers Market in Dunedin on Saturday to the suggestion the market might be moved to the site of a new stadium in Awatea St ranged from "appalling" to "it would be a good move".
