Dive Otago instructors Chris Zinsli (left) and Levi Healey do ''breath holds'' to raise money for non profit organisation Project Aware's Fin-A-Thon, a global event designed to raise awareness about the fight to stop shark finning.
Five people were taken to hospital after a two car crash in Dunedin yesterday.
A dairy farm worker died yesterday when the car he was driving was involved in a collision with a campervan that police believe failed to stop at a northern Southland intersection.
The more than 50 cancer survivors in Otago and Southland waiting for breast reconstruction have been promised surgery by the end of next year.
Two Dunedin butchers are a cut above the rest and will represent the lower South Island at the national butchery grand finals.
Some of the young kiwi evacuated in June after a stoat invaded Orokonui Ecosanctuary at Waitati have returned to the reserve, even though the stoat may still be at large.
A united, passionate plea to remove controversial concrete kerb blocks has been made to the Dunedin City Council.
Mosgiel Taieri Community Board members are set to ''muck in'' and want suggestions on littered areas in the catchment in dire need of cleaning up.
A project to protect the Mosgiel sign has been given $1800 by the Mosgiel Taieri Community Board.
A dangerous section of Mosgiel footpath will be repaired this week, the Dunedin City Council says.
A South Dunedin car dealership manager wants a scammer to stop using his identity.
The project to protect the Mosgiel sign was given nearly $2000 yesterday.
In the first six hours of this year's whitebaiting season, Peter Wild hauled three of the prized fry from Taieri River.
The huskies' howls will signal the start of the 20th Wanaka Sled Dog Festival tomorrow.
No topic was taboo at a spoken-word poetry contest in Dunedin last night.
To bring the show Band of Magicians to Dunedin cost the Regent Theatre more than any other production it has bankrolled and poses a ''huge financial risk'' - but theatre manager Sarah Anderson is confident the tricksters will make empty theatre seats disappear.
Clues have emerged to help Middlemarch Museum solve a mystery.
The Strath-Taieri community board is to fund essential defibrillator maintenance.
Clues have emerged to help Middlemarch Museum solve a mystery.
Selling tartan to Alaskans is easier when you have Irish ancestry.
