Shawn McAvinue

A controversial picnic table will stay put in Mosgiel, defying an artist's intentions by blocking pedestrian flow.

A plan for a $15 million Taieri Aquatic Facility at Memorial Park in Mosgiel will be handed to Dunedin City Council staff on Monday .

Saddle Hill Community Board chairman Scott Weatherall congratulates Youth Ambassador Award recipient Andrew Trembath (17) outside the Brighton Surf Clubrooms.

Brighton/Ocean View Playcentre spokeswoman Leanne Stenhouse says the Otago Playcentre Association has decided the playcentre in John St, Ocean View, will begin a ''two-year recess'' from Friday.

Thomas Jackson-Birtles (5), of Mosgiel, sits in a restored 1928 Ford Model A pedal car at the Otago Community Hospice Charity Cruise at Tahuna Park yesterday.

All that Dunedin City Council junkets to international sister cities created was reports with ''vegetarian'' platitudes and no meat on economic benefits, says Cr Lee Vandervis.

The oldest youth organisation in New Zealand was celebrated in Dunedin on Saturday.

An organisation has opened ''nappy banks'' across New Zealand, giving more people access to cloth nappies.

Artworks created by St Leonard's School pupils are set to take to the street in the annual West Harbour Arts Week parade.

A couple of Dunedin Italian eateries have found new premises to expand their businesses. Shawn McAvinue talks to the owner of a pizzeria moving from the city to the suburbs for a bigger slice of the action and another who moved from the suburbs to the city.

The Dunedin Musicians' Club will celebrate its 40th birthday on the last Saturday of this month.

A Waikouaiti man is seeing red after Google terminated his Android developer account and stopped a steady revenue stream.

The Otago SPCA is investigating the alleged beating of an elderly dog in Dunedin, inspector team leader Julie Richardson said. 

A sketch of the mural Reaching for the Stars proposed for Caversham.

A Dunedin widow whose husband's bowel cancer was detected too late to cure wants the Government to commit to a national screening programme.

KC Racing crew members Michael Partel (left) and Jeff Sharp fix a release bearing on a Ford Escort gearbox at the Mitre 10 Mega Dunedin car park last night.