Rebecca Fox

Dragging a 90kg dummy along the ground is one way to find out if you have what it takes to be a firefighter.

Dunedin's reputation as a wet and cold city has taken a hit, with a national climate report showing the city was one of the driest in the country in 2008.

As hundreds, if not thousands, of hectares of beech trees around the South Island flower and seed profusely this summer, the potential for a population explosion in rats and stoats grows, threatening the hard work done to protect the nationally endangered mohua.

A new method of building walking tracks has helped the Dunedin City Council improve access to its golf course track at Ross Creek, Dunedin.

Christmas will never be the same again for the Williams and Savarimuthu families.

The new city loop bus service, established in place of the Otago Regional Council's failed campus bus route, is showing early signs of promise.

Dunedin's population of robins are special and should be protected, a University of Otago researcher says.