Shawn McAvinue

Comedian Guy Williams, of Auckland, answered questions from the audience at the Fortune Theatre on Saturday, as part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival.

Miss World New Zealand Deborah Lambie (24), of Dunedin, at the Think Pink Race Day is joined at Wingatui Racecourse yesterday by (from left) Angela Hastie, of Outram, Melissa Dodd, of Mosgiel, and Renee Miller, of Outram.

When Anna Bartlett evacuated her flooded Kinmont Park home on Wednesday she saw her fridge floating in a metre of water.

The owner of a sodden Mosgiel business is praising the Dunedin City Council's flood protection work.

New Zealand Army Band euphonium player Joel Williams, with Royal New Zealand Ballet dancers (from left) Tynan Wood, Alayna Ng, Elisabeth Zorino, Kirby Selchow and Jacob Chown, at the Regent Theatre yesterday.

A messy Mosgiel corner with a history of ''conflict'' is set for a makeover.

A concerned resident wants the Dunedin City Council to make a Mosgiel footpath safer before someone gets hurt.

A new road in a Mosgiel subdivision is named after a family synonymous with the Taieri racing industry.

Water is draining away at Brighton Domain but it is too soon to tell if remedial work has fixed the problem, Saddle Hill Community Board chairman Scott Weatherall says.

A Dunedin professor who invented the first drainage device for glaucoma has been honoured at a function at the Otago Museum.

Dunedin boy Campbell Landrebe struggled to keep the smile from his face after winning the overall junior title at the New Zealand Gold Guitars in Gore.

Bands can be criticised for playing too much new material at a concert but Six60 did just that in Dunedin on Saturday and the crowd enjoyed every minute.

A Dunedin schoolgirl is glad the boys she plays rugby against are no longer scared of her.

The show Sleeping Beauty on Ice scheduled for Dunedin and Christchurch next month has been cancelled due to a shipping error in Colombia.

A Dutch couple touring New Zealand have had an unexpected bonus.

Among the accolades for five police staff at a Mosgiel ceremony was a peppering of puns by a top Taieri officer.

Future rugby stars are set to shine at the 54th annual Taieri sevens tournament on Sunday.