The Portobello community has rallied to support a family left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, after a fire gutted their home on Wednesday.
Dunedin conductor Peter Adams is hoping he will still be able to move his right arm after what feels like a 21-day conducting marathon.
A large set of keys found in Highgate last week has left Dunedin police trying to unlock the mystery as to who owns them.
A French vacationer risked his life by running into a burning building at Harington Point yesterday to rescue as many of his family's belongings as possible.
There was a time in Middlemarch when locals reckoned you could kick a tussock and either a rabbit or a member of the Tisdall family would jump out.
The discovery of toxic mould growing in the walls of a classroom and another building at Bayfield High School in Dunedin has prompted the school to demolish and rebuild the facilities at a cost of $1.4 million.
What Tony Glassford should have told his fishing buddies was that he caught a 4m marlin which got away after it broke his rod and his boat.
Jake Cropley has no Celtic ancestry, but that is not stopping the 18-year-old from helping New Zealand forge stronger cultural links with Scotland.
The moment Ruby Harris (15) and Naomi Ashby-Ryan (14) finish secondary school, they plan to head straight for Hollywood.
Tobias Devereux has done it again.
The number of people serving on school boards of trustees in Otago has declined by 133 in the past decade.
These days Josh MacMillan divides his life into two parts - bOB and aOB - before Outward Bound and after Outward Bound.
Buying school uniforms is a costly annual exercise which can force some parents beyond their financial limits and under the couch cushions looking for loose change.
For many young people, Crohn's disease is painful, debilitating and difficult to talk about with friends - and worst of all, it can leave sufferers with little to look forward to each day.
The number of Otago schools requiring Ministry of Education intervention has dropped during the past year to its lowest point since 2008.
Rather than remove freestyle artwork painted without permission on a wall in the Water of Leith late last year, the Otago Regional and Dunedin City Councils are working together to find a way to protect it.
Dunedin may be baking in one of the best summers in years, but two Dunedin builders are leaving that behind for the chillier climes of the Antarctic tomorrow.
As the Otago Daily Times pulls up Sam Stainer's drive, the 8-year-old is kicking a football around in his South Dunedin back yard.
From driving trucks to selling collectables, Marlene Graham has had an interesting career path. John Lewis finds out how it led to creating her ''happy place'' in the former Shingle Creek pub.
Mosgiel's Amana Christian School has completed its secondary education trial period and has been permitted to continue teaching secondary pupils indefinitely.
