Nigel Benson

A container ship had a bumpy ride on its maiden visit to Dunedin this week.

Two of New Zealand's greatest motorsport identities are being celebrated in Dunedin.

A Dunedin band picked the wrong week to record its debut album.

A glittering cast of local talent will perform in a farewell concert for Dunedin mezzo-soprano Claire Barton this weekend.

Hundreds of men, women and children marched into the Octagon on Saturday in the Rape Crisis "Slutwalk" crusade against sexual violence.

Bubbles are being used this week as a symbol to promote greater understanding of the cystic fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis Association of New Zealand membership liaison officer Julian Cox said.

Counter lunches will never be the same again. A half tonne pewter and oak counter was installed in a new Dunedin cafe in the Octagon last Friday in a tribute to Otago's French pioneers.

Dunedin's three shark attack fatalities were remembered in an emotional ceremony at St Clair Beach yesterday.

A south Dunedin building was closed by the Dunedin City Council yesterday and is likely to be condemned after its facade was discovered to be cracking and leaning.

New Zealand rowing Olympian Rob Hamill will talk in Dunedin this weekend about the torture and murder of his older brother by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Old models are strutting their stuff in Dunedin.

There is a lot riding on the backs of three Waikouaiti old-timers. Pirate, Kate and Gemini have taught generations of disabled children about much more than just horse-riding.

A 30m-long birthday present has been unwrapped in Dunedin.

Humphrey Skinner wanders out on to Carisbrook with his walking stick and surveys the empty grandstand.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery preparator Russell Soo lines up 240 paua shells yesterday during the installation of the 1991 work Pathway to the Sea - Aramoana by artists Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert.