Shawn McAvinue

The police warning to ''always blow on the pie'' is advice more Otago residents should heed, as hot food injury rates begin to boil over.

Otago Polytechnic students were asked to save the world - and Invermay - at a brunch welcoming them to their study in Dunedin yesterday.

The Festival of the Plain is set to serve up the entertainment during the next few weeks.

A trial of a new freedom camping policy at three sites around Dunedin, including the Ocean View Recreation Reserve, is also attracting tenters at the latter.

The fossil fuel roadshow that started its tour of South Taranaki schools yesterday could come to Otago and was not ''propaganda'' but a way to engage with the community, New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) spokesman John Pagani says.

A couple of University of Otago graduates recall Dunedin's campus life in the 1990s as times of slavery and flea pits - a unique experience today's campus lacks. But they tell Shawn McAvinue why they would recommend the campus.

Ashley Blair is celebrating the birthday of his 100-year-old motorcycle by re-creating the journey his grandfather made a century ago.

The cost of transporting ACC clients in Otago has risen significantly.

Pacific people talked through tears about tobacco addiction at the launch of a smokefree project in Dunedin last night.

Cupid's arrow can wound and, if you are feeling unwell today, you could be suffering from lovesickness.

Horse manure on Ocean View Recreation Reserve was a hot topic at last week's Saddle Hill Community Board meeting.

Cyclists' ''ignorance and arrogance'' has prompted Strath Taieri Community Board chairman Barry Williams to call for cycles to be registered.

Texan cowboy Mark Northcott (39) could be mistaken as a muse for a country music song.

Organisers are calling Ride the Rhythm's second year a success despite ticket sales being almost half those of last year's event.

The man seriously injured when a gas cylinder exploded in Invercargill on Monday is in an induced coma.

A Dunedin state housing tenant and the SPCA want Housing New Zealand to reconsider its dog policy.

A suspicious fire last night damaged Ranfurly's Centennial Milk Bar, which now houses an Art Deco museum and other businesses.

Dunedin band the Chills are understood to be playing at this year's Glastonbury festival.