Shawn McAvinue

A Tongan minister came to Dunedin on God's call and yesterday became a New Zealander - so he can spread the Gospel abroad if called upon again.

When Dunedin ballet dancer Bene Stewart (18) finished his final dance in the Solo Seal exam, he was sure he had given enough to pass the prestigious test.

Sinterklaas and helper Black Pete are farewelled by the Dutch community after a celebration in Dunedin last night. About 25 children of recent Dutch immigrants were given presents by Sinterklaas at the Northeast Valley Baptist Church Hall.

A personal trainer in South Dunedin has been smiling ever since she won a national fitness award.

The Community Learning Centre in Dunedin will shut its doors on Thursday after 20 years of teaching adult students with intellectual disabilities.

Dunedin police are still looking for the man who sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman near the University of Otago campus early on Sunday.

Waitati resident Mandy Mayhem (40) leads Lani Morrison (33), of Port Chalmers, and a bevy of brides during "all brides day" at Doctors Point Beach, north of Dunedin, on Saturday.

About 20 Dunedin community groups were told on Thursday morning why they should encourage people to complete next year's census.

A Dunedin arborist will represent more than 20,000 of his peers worldwide who are working in the understaffed, underpaid but "sexy" industry of arboriculture.

The $5 million warehouse development by Port Otago on the former Glendermid Leathers tannery site at Sawyers Bay is on target.

Some dinner tables may go without a New Zealand ham this Christmas because fewer pigs are being farmed, New Zealand Pork chairman Ian Carter says.

Saloon cars fired up on aviation gas barreled into the bends at Beachlands Speedway in the Dunedin last night.

A Dunedin woman is heading to Vietnam to work with physically and mentally disabled orphans, some crippled from the chemical Agent Orange.

Three New Zealanders living in London, Bulgaria and Texas met in seven different American states to make the travel series American Times. Shawn McAvinue talks to them about bringing down scumbags in Seattle and manning up in Massachusetts.

White ribbons fluttered on the black leather jackets of the motorcycle riders who roared up to St Paul's Cathedral yesterday morning.

Donations for the family of the cyclist killed outside Dunedin Hospital on Monday have reached $7500.

Waikouaiti police want to talk to a motorist who saw a car, with an elderly man and large dog inside, flip at the southern end of the Kilmog yesterday afternoon.

Former Mad Butcher owner Sir Peter Leitch will not go down without a fight, and was in Dunedin yesterday to see the laboratory helping him battle bladder cancer.