Parking issue for business
Business owners in Green Island and Mosgiel are becoming frustrated with a lack of available parks for customers in their areas.
Elliot Parker
Vanuatu pen-pal bid teaches compassion
Vanuatu pen-pal bid teaches compassion
Broad Bay School pupils hope to become pen pals with Vanuatuan children affected by Cyclone Pam after sending them boxes of toys, books, letters and stationery.
Medals aplenty for club
Medals aplenty for club
The Taieri community is getting behind the Mosgiel Taekwondo Club, which bagged 21 medals at the International Taekwondo South Island Regional Tournament in Christchurch on the weekend of May 2-3.
Arcade challenge cartons of fun
Arcade challenge cartons of fun
What do a ''torture chamber'', pinball machine, air hockey, and a pool table have in common?
Late charges OK in zorb showdown
Late charges OK in zorb showdown
Like a scene from The Lord of the Rings, University of Otago students formed two battle lines and charged head-on into each other yesterday in a zorb ball showdown.
Rhyme, metre and verse create chain reaction
Rhyme, metre and verse create chain reaction
An audience of about 100 people were captivated by poets at the Athenaeum Library in Dunedin yesterday.
Foehn wind brings unseasonal warmth to Dunedin
Foehn wind brings unseasonal warmth to Dunedin
A northwesterly wind coming from over the mountains meant Dunedin experienced an unseasonable high of 24degC yesterday.
Orchard workers head home to help
Orchard workers head home to help
For more than six weeks, a group of Vanuatuans have agonised in Otago while their families back home struggle with the destruction caused by Cyclone Pam.
Candidates out to impress party faithful
Candidates out to impress party faithful
The four Green Party co leader candidates had five minutes to impress party supporters on Saturday.
Many turn out to protest meals move
Many turn out to protest meals move
About 200 people packed the terraces in the Octagon on Saturday to demand the Southern DHB keep meals in house instead of following through with a proposed move to outsource them.
Truck crash blocks motorway
Truck crash blocks motorway
Rush-hour traffic on the northbound lanes of Dunedin's Southern Motorway ground to a halt yesterday morning after a truck and trailer unit jack-knifed near the Oval.
Chance meeting lasts a lifetime
Chance meeting lasts a lifetime
Seventy odd years after a chance encounter on a tram in Dunedin, Dawn and Cecil Turner yesterday celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
Choral group off to China
Choral group off to China
Singing in Shanghai is something high school pupils should savour, Otago Boys' High School head of music Rob Duffy says.
Pair in pole position
Pair in pole position
A pole-dancing couple will become rivals this weekend in a battle of grace versus strength.
Woman's family seek sightings
Woman's family seek sightings
The family of missing woman Denise Potter were out on central Dunedin streets yesterday delivering leaflets in an attempt to gain any leads on her whereabouts.
Like mother, like son
Like mother, like son
Moving the coffee table should not be a problem for mother and son powerlifters Shelley and Sean Kennedy.
Tower poppy in Mosgiel
Tower poppy in Mosgiel
A tower of London ceramic poppy sent from the UK by a friend of Mosgiel resident John Noble has gone on display at the Mosgiel RSA in time for Anzac Day.
Malaysian tour stepping stone for future
Malaysian tour stepping stone for future
John McGlashan College hockey players had the experience of a lifetime recently.
Thieves targeting cars at Sandfly Bay parking area
Thieves targeting cars at Sandfly Bay parking area
Police are warning tourists parking at Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula to be alert after several burglaries in the area.
Two claim suitcase of memories
Two claim suitcase of memories
Two people have come forward to claim a suitcase containing the war diary of a Dunedin soldier killed in action in France in 1918.