New Zealand's oldest competing cowboy is thinking about hanging up his spurs after an international rodeo event in Christchurch in November.
Roading authorities in Otago will find out tomorrow which projects the Government is willing to fund during the next three years.
More than a dozen native shrubs planted to screen a colourful heart-shaped memorial alongside Dunedin's Southern Motorway have been torn out.
Former Auckland soprano Joanna Foote (25) won her first singing competition last night, claiming the 2009 Otago Daily Times Aria title at the Glenroy Auditorium in Dunedin.
Dunedin sisters Clare and Judith Curran are setting up a presentation for Parliament on New Zealand's use of palm products.
The cost to motorists of meeting the new rules on cellphone use in cars could be as little as $35.
One of the lawyers acting for convicted murderer Clayton Weatherston says there is a "huge level of ignorance" among the public about the relationship between lawyers and their clients and he blames, in part, fictional television programmes such as Boston Legal.
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority is playing down concerns raised by the Green Party over mercury and arsenic levels in fish sold in Dunedin.
Cadbury yesterday bowed to the power of the consumer and dumped palm oil as an ingredient in its dairy milk chocolate.
University of Otago psychologist Associate Prof David O'Hare has lambasted the Government's decision to ban only the use of hand-held cellphones by motorists and not those that are hands-free.
The perils of buying property at mortgagee sales have been outlined in the July newsletter of Dunedin law firm Gallaway Cook Allan.
A Goodwood resident who commutes to his job in Dunedin is causing a few surprised looks on the hill roads north of the city.
Otago regional councillor Michael Deaker believes Dunedin's bus service has turned the corner and is now delivering what the public wants.
Some legal aid has been granted to convicted fraud Michael Swann to allow him to progress a Court of Appeal case to have his sentence reduced.
The Captain Cook Tavern's Cook-a-thon was yesterday described as a "scandalous abomination" that had developed "legs of its own".
Dunedin-born jet pack inventor Glenn Martin says he would be delighted to show off his flying machine in his home town.
The board of the Otago Museum will not be "sweeping under the carpet" allegations that its management has intimidated staff.
A Dunedin couple had brought "a touch of class" to the city, Mayor Peter Chin told a small gathering on board the MV Tiakina yesterday.
The very bedroom where Queen Elizabeth and her "dashing" young husband Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh spent the night on their visit to Dunedin 55 years ago is up for sale.
A masquerade, mardi gras-style street parade will start off Queer Pride Week in Dunedin this year.