Shawn McAvinue

Despite this week's rain, the dry spell is set to continue.

A 24-year-old Frenchman was chased by a pregnant shop owner after he allegedly took a wallet from her store.

Deep burnout ''trenches'' are among the scars on new Fairfield landscaping.

New ''no-parking'' signs beside the approach to Dunedin International Airport are part of a landscaping project rather than a move to collect more parking revenue, the airport's future chief says.

The freezing blue lips of a homeless man prompted the start of a journey for a Green Island man recognised in the 2015 New Year New Zealand Honours.

The Accident Compensation Corporation is paying for more botched tattoo jobs as more people in Dunedin get dodgy ink work covered.

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.

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.