"It all seems a bit unreal,’’ Dame Gillian Whitehead says after becoming one of five artists to join the living circle of 20 New Zealand Arts Foundation Icons.
The Chocolate Carnival might be over for Dunedin, but three charities that have benefited from the event have been assured they will receive their expected funding.
Local musicians and music lovers were surprised "but not surprised" by Nashville-based company Gibson Brands’ announcement it was filing for bankruptcy.
If determined fundraising and prayer had anything to do with it, the new Waikouaiti Coastal Heritage Centre would be up and running by the end of the year.
The recent retirement of Dunedin court security officer and former prison officer Geoff Oswald ended almost 90 years of service to the justice sector by three generations of his family.
An Alexandra man has been found not guilty of causing a fire which extensively damaged the Wastebusters recycling facility in the Central Otago town in 2015.
Alexandra man Aaron Gourlay has been found not guilty of lighting the fire which extensively damaged the town's Wastebusters recycling facility in September 2015.
A motorcyclist travelling an estimated 175kmh while overtaking a line of traffic on the Lewis Pass Highway ‘‘was not in a hurry’’ at the time, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.
Dunedin man Jason Mark Adams was jailed last July on his 25th conviction for burglary, was released in November and then committed another six burglaries.