A Czech author who escaped from behind the iron curtain to live in exile in Dunedin is releasing her first novel in English.
About 100 years ago, a eager teenager lied about his age in Palmerston North to enlist in the Otago Battalion. Shawn McAvinue digs up his grandfather's military records and discovers a cabinetmaker signing up for military training in Dunedin to evade his older sister threats of stopping him joining World War 1.
Diving and swimming is prohibited at Ross Creek Reservoir but boys will be boys.
A dog believed to have been involved in an attack in Oamaru has been seized.
Dunedin is set to become the distribution base for a self-heating beverage, as the biggest market is expected in the South.
A Dunedin designer dressmaker says the demand for unique ''made from scratch'' clothing is so strong she is opening a second shop.
A Dunedin family reunited with its roaming rabbit want to thank the person who saved him.
A sea survival programme kept afloat by government funding is helping to save lives in Dunedin.
At the Volunteering Otago School Holiday Programme at Otago SPCA in Dunedin yesterday are Bayfield High School pupils (from left) Kara Hill (15), holding Border collie cross Basil, and JJ Thompson (15), holding Staffordshire bull terrier cross Willow.
Several Southerners have been named semifinalists in categories of the New Zealander of the Year awards.
Motorcycle mechanic Iain Kelly, of Dunedin, with the handbuilt trike he sold on New Year's Eve following successful surgery on a herniated disc in his back.
A new year dawned yesterday and resolutions were made.
Newlyweds Stan and Debi Dysart (49) glide down the dinosaur slide at Dunedin's Marlow Park on New Year's Eve.
A banished dog has been granted a reprieve to stay with his family in a Mosgiel state house.
Staff embroiled in a pay dispute at Anglican Family Care will return to work today after they were suspended without pay.
A small Dunedin seaside settlement is being urged to be ''water aware'' or residents might find themselves in ''dire straits''.
A criminal investigation has been launched after the death of a man at a Christmas party.
The power outage of about 470 homes in Leith Valley in Dunedin is expected to be restored by 8.30pm, Delta spokesman Gary Johnson said.
The Seacliff asylum patients in a mass unmarked Dunedin grave need to be remembered, the man who discovered the burial site said.
Burning sun pushed the mercury to nearly 30degC at the Boxing Day races at Wingatui Racecourse yesterday.