John Gibb

Dunedin artist and exhibition judge Barry Weston looks at photographic work Allans Beach Storm, by John Burke, at the ''Almost an Island'' art exhibition opening at the Macandrew Bay Community Hall...

Former Dunedin resident and historian Carolyn King is keen to preserve the rich social history of the city's once-booming Chinese fruit shop trade.

About 4000 passengers from Ovation of the Seas fanned out throughout Dunedin and its hinterland yesterday, on the busiest day in the last phase of the city's cruise ship season.

Dunedin city councillor Christine Garey has praised the "enormously important work'' of the Cancer Society and reflected movingly on supporting a friend with cancer.

About three hundred young people gathered in a grassy area off Lovelock Ave, Dunedin, on Saturday afternoon.

Some freedom campers on the Otago Peninsula are not playing by the rules, and the area's community board is seeking better information-sharing with the Dunedin City Council.

University of Otago researchers have welcomed new regulations that require plain tobacco packaging, but are urging the use of updated on-pack warnings to discourage young people from smoking.

A precedent-setting judgement in a Dunedin court case is likely to usher in future improvements, but more needs to be done to overcome other court cost barriers to justice for ACC claimants.

More than 80 people attended an anniversary lunch in Mosgiel yesterday to celebrate the Taieri Recreational Tramping Club's 30th anniversary.

Maintaining ''research literacy'' is crucial for the future of the medical profession and for the best interests of patients, Otago Medical School dean Prof Peter Crampton said yesterday.

University of Otago researchers are helping lead a big international project to clarify the main causes of fever in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and determine how they should be treated.

University of Otago research into low oxygen conditions in ancient times has also highlighted a "huge" future threat to oceans, including near New Zealand, from global warming.

The Otago Peninsula Community Board has granted $3000 to support moves to install two large water tanks near Harington Point to help fight fires.

More funding is needed to benefit from the "untapped potential" of the Otago Peninsula’s "world-class" walking tracks, and to create a major further tourism asset for Dunedin.

A new co-director of a University of Otago research unit, Louise Marsh, says her own  experience of receiving a cancer diagnosis has given her cancer-related research work "extra impetus".

After spending most of the past 10 years working with Red Cross surgical teams in war zones, Dunedin nurse Barbara Turnbull will be awarded the  Florence Nightingale Medal next week.