Shawn McAvinue

A Dunedin family man battling a rare brain cancer is working hard to return home.

It's not necessarily the news anyone who shivered through yesterday will want to hear, but hard frosts are set to continue today and tomorrow.

The ''vibrancy and variety'' of entries for an art competition judged in Dunedin last night has impressed the host president.

An Outram mum is teaching parents how to recognise a ''heartbreaking'' and preventable condition.

The New Zealand International Film Festival begins in Dunedin tonight and has the biggest billing in its history.

There's no place like home.

Onlookers watch as firefighters attend an electrical fire at Dunedin Railway Station yesterday.

Woohoo - Malaysian hawker food restaurant Madam Woo is set to open in Dunedin in September.

A Dunedin doctor is aiming to raise the most money in New Zealand from his booze break.

To celebrate their 98th birthday, Mosgiel sisters and identical twins Elsie Fagg and Cora Wright  swapped cards, cash and good-natured teasing.

Housing New Zealand has had a change of heart, ending a tenant's ''nightmare'', and agreeing to replace a television damaged after a Dunedin state house was flooded.

A service station employee is warning others to ''be aware'' following a petrol theft in Dunedin yesterday, as police inquiries continue into stolen registration plates used in other ''petrol drive-offs''.

A student is leaving Dunedin next week for an upstate New York university on a scholarship package worth more than $100,000.

A pedestrian is helped by members of the public after being hit by a motorbike in Dunedin about 5pm yesterday.

Taxi company Uber says it has no plans to launch its services in Otago and Southland until a Government review is complete.

A long-standing secret society of pranksters from Dunedin's Selwyn College created a sticky situation for a Dunedin student yesterday - colourfully catching the attention of passers-by.

Contractors work on the four-storey car parking building behind the former chief post office in Dunedin yesterday.

Halberg Disability Sport Foundation Otago and Southland adviser Bridget Meyer is collecting sports gear for disabled Tongan children.

If residents of Outram, Waldronville, Strath Taieri and Middlemarch want faster and more reliable internet connection now is the time for them to ''step up'' and make themselves heard.