It is a big day for Brighton and a 'huge' day for the Brighton Surf Life Saving Club.

Organisers say more than 10,000 people typically visit the annual Brighton Gala Day which raises around thousands of dollars for the surf club.

Disc Golf is a sport rapidly growing in popularity and more than 90 of New Zealand's best converged on Dunedin at the weekend.

The New Zealand Championships were held over three days on a specially made 18-hole course at the Wai-ora Scout Camp in Whare Flat.

Rescuers continue to look for a teenage boy missing off Dunedin's Second Beach since Thursday.

The initial search began at 4.30pm Thursday after reports of a male in trouble in the water at Second Beach but was suspended at 9pm.

Searchers returned to Dunedin's second beach this morning to resume the search for a teenager missing in the waters off the city's St Clair beach.

A shoreline search was also completed this morning and the Police dive squad have since arrived to help in the search

Otago Surf Life Saving search and rescue co-ordinator Max Corboy told the Otago Daily Times last night an area stretching from St Clair to Tunnel Beach had been searched.

An Otago Regional Rescue helicopter also took part in the initial search.

Demolition of Invercargill's CBD to make way for a redevelopment has started with a bang.

The inner-city redevelopment sees the demolition of an entire block bordered by Dee, Tay, Kelvin and Esk Sts, for an inner city development.

Dunedin is hosting a double-header of UCI Mountain Bike racing events.

The Oceania Mountain Bike Championships are being hosted consecutively, with the National Mountain Bike Champs over the next few days in the city.

Freedom campers continue to flock to Dunedin with a 20 percent increase on last year.

Despite the increase, the number of tickets being dished out by the Dunedin City Council has halved.

A Dunedin couple's 1300km bicycle journey to lay a coffin on Parliament's steps came to an emotional end on Wednesday.

Julian and Camilla Cox cycled from Dunedin to Wellington, towing a coffin behind their tandem bike, calling for the Government drug-buying agency Pharmac's yearly $1billion budget to be doubled.

Reflecting on 70 years of service brings mixed emotions for Dunedin's last remaining Christian Brother.

Br Graeme Donaldson marked his milestone with a Mass of Thanksgiving at St Patrick's's Basilica in South Dunedin.

A University of Otago field trip to Brighton on Tuesday armed a group of secondary school teachers with techniques for teaching geology in the classroom.

The trip was part of the university's annual advanced school sciences academy, which engages senior secondary school pupils and their teachers in a week of science-based learning.

The last place you'd expect to find an orchard is in the backyard of a Dunedin property in the middle of the city's student quarter.

But that's exactly what Rory Harding has created at his George St home.

A man has been charged with careless driving causing injury following a bus crash in which a girl and woman lost limbs.

Emergency services arrived at the crash yesterday afternoon on the Glenorchy-Queenstown Rd, southwest of Queenstown.

A tourist bus had rolled on to its side, and the Otago Daily Times understands a girl lost both hands in the crash, and a woman lost one hand.

Otago Lakes Area Commander Inspector Olaf Jensen says a 32-year-old man has been charged with careless driving causing injury following the bus crash.

Those on board the bus, including the driver, are all Chinese nationals.

The man is expected to appear in the Queenstown District Court on Monday, January 27.

Twenty people are injured, including two seriously, after a bus rolled on Glenorchy-Queenstown Road about 7km southwest of Queenstown.

Police say the crash happened just before 2pm and the road, just south of Closeburn Road, is blocked.

A University of Otago academic says climate change may be responsible for fish from warmer waters being caught in Otago waters.

Professor Steve Wing says these waters were once too cold for kingfish, but it didn't stop a visiting retired pastor from hauling up a whopper this week.

A Queenstown tourism giant has begun building a village for its staff at Walter Peak, in response to rising Queenstown rents.

Real Journey's has spent 1.5 million dollars on three new houses for staff at Walter Peak High Country Farm.

A new dawn in the space age is set to break at Oamaru Airport.

A memorandum of understanding between the Waitaki District Council and aerospace company Dawn Aerospace could mean space flight from the North Otago town later this year.