Nigel Benson

A spate of dog attacks on sheep has farmers calling for tighter controls on pig hunters.

Country kids don't mince their words. But even the Otago Daily Times was surprised at the reaction to the Highlanders' controversial new green rugby strip from some of the team's most diehard fans yesterday.

Highlanders rugby fans experienced the more nauseating aspect of the colour green at Carisbrook last night.

A sacred ceremony greeted the new dawn in Dunedin yesterday.

A Dunedin company has been bucking the engineering trend by applying an artistic attitude to its projects.

It looked like a sports awards ceremony in apartment 304 at Frances Hodgkins Retirement Village yesterday.

The New Zealand Anime Convention brought dozens of "cosplayers" and their alter egos to the University of Otago Castle complex on Saturday.

Staff from construction company Calder Stewart were in the dog house on Saturday but it was all for a good cause.

Mike Chandler will always have a place in his heart for his mates.

Taking your medicine may be only part of the prescription to staying healthy.

Dunedin police have conceded the closure of State Highway 88 after a recent fatal crash could have been managed "better".

A creative side to skateboarding will be revealed in Dunedin today.

A suspected arson attack on an occupied student flat early yesterday could have had deadly consequences, police and Fire Service personnel say.

Friends Judith Wright and Muriel Crawford raised their hands in the Dunedin Town Hall yesterday after Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull asked who attended the inaugural Age Concern Mayoral Concert, in 1991.

Logan Park High School science teacher Peter MacCaskill takes a hit from a water balloon at the school yesterday while Dane Forgie-Stephens (13) launches another attack.

Police have named the teenager who died yesterday after his car collided head-on with a truck near Forsyth Barr Stadium, in Dunedin.