One trip up Dunedin's Baldwin Street is enough for most people, but for Steve Tripp one is never enough.

No stranger to hills, the 54-year-old regularly runs upwards, and is an organiser of the Three Peaks Mountain Race.

A Chicago retiree has travelled across the world to Dunedin to run down the airport runway.

Carol Thomas arrived in New Zealand this week to take part in the Run the Runway event at the Dunedin Airport on Sunday.

The trial closure of the Octagon has angered retailers who say they are already hurting financially.

Some shop keepers are even saying their future existence is under threat.

The lure of Shakespeare, and the challenge of performing outdoors, have attracted a group of actors for the first season, of Dunedin Summer Shakespeare in many years.

Opening this evening at Woodhaugh Gardens, cast members say they're looking forward to the public joining them in the woods.

The host of the Dunedin's Radio One jazz show is calling it a day after more than twenty years.

Richard Good has been doing the Sunday morning Jazz Junction show since the 90's and will broadcast his final show this weekend.

A locomotive built in 1885 has been retrieved from the bottom of a Southland river nearly a century after it was left there.

A crane lifted the V-class steam locomotive out of the Oreti River yesterday. It, with another V-class, was dumped in the river, north of Lumsden, in 1927.

Dunedin's Caledonian Ground was the setting for an unexpected new Otago track record on Saturday.

26-year-old Rebekah Greene said she was surprised after running in a mixed field to have taken three seconds off the Otago senior women's 5000m record.

Contractors are busy finishing off the construction of the new Music, Theatre and Performing Arts Centre in time for students returning to Dunedin next month.

The project involves constructing a new two-storey recording studio building, as well as refurbishing music suites and other facilities at the College of Education.

The Dunedin City Council Council has begun three-day discussions about the Annual Plan.

The first session of the day began with some fiery exchanges, with one councillor being made to apologise...and rate payers could be in line for a 6.5% rates increase.

A $40,000 warning system has been added to a pedestrian crossing where a school pupil was hit by a truck in Kaikorai Valley two years ago.

Testing the lights for the first time, the Dunedin City Council says its job is to alert motorists, and increase safety for pedestrians.

Some New Zealanders are expressing growing concern the corona virus outbreak which first emerged in China, will eventually spread to this country.

Nigel Millar of the Southern District Health Board says at this point in time, people in New Zealand shouldn't worry about catching the new virus.

Wanaka's new $16 million primary school is set to open for families on Thursday.

Te Kura O Take Karara is set to start term one with a roll of just 80 pupils, and grow to about 400 young learners over the next three to four years.

Yesterday was a "tough" first day for some retailers in Dunedin's Octagon as the council began trials of closing the area to motor vehicles.

Over the rest of summer the CBD's streets will hopefully be filled with large crowds, as a series of events hits the city, starting with the Masters Games.

Mural painting on a flat wall isn't without challenges, but a Dunedin artist says painting on weatherboards requires another special set of skills.

Guy Howard-Smith says adding another dimension to his large mural at Logan Park High School was a challenge he was ready to meet.

Dunedin's and quite possibly the country’s oldest florist has shut its doors after 137 years, but not for good.

After 50 years in the Octagon, florist Miss Reid, has left its old store and moved down the road to Princes Street.