Mark Price

The Dunedin City Council is supporting a move to name part of State Highway 88 after former Port Chalmers mayor, the late Sir John Thorn.

A quilt embroidered by Dunedin women, and designed to bring a little cheer to wounded soldiers during World War 1, has been returned to the city after 93 years.

The $1 million system designed to burn off methane gas from the Dunedin City Council's Green Island landfill was fired up, briefly, for the first time on Friday.

Queenstown Mayor Clive Geddes has questioned the safety of the single-lane Kawarau Falls bridge, on State Highway 6, at Frankton.

A Wingatui couple married for 68 years died within 28 hours of each other.

A boat formerly owned by convicted fraud Michael Swann is being refitted as a "boutique" floating hotel, to be used for charters on Otago Harbour.

The proposed new $50 million Caversham Bypass, at Dunedin's southern State Highway 1 entrance, has become so expensive it may now have to be built in two stages, with construction not beginning until 2014-15.

A Dunedin mother of two young children has described as "irresponsible" Public Health South's refusal to identify the location of an outbreak of English measles.

Fire bans are spreading rapidly across the Otago province, with the Clutha, Waitaki and Lakes District Councils expected, in the next few days, to join other authorities that already have prohibitions in place.

Local firefighters say they would be nervous about going to fight bushfires in Australia while Otago itself is so dry.

Murder accused David Bain is back in Dunedin making preparations for his retrial.

Dunedin Marine Search and Rescue is warning about the dangers of a strong rip running out to sea from Smails Beach on the Otago Peninsula.