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Local gardeners know to get in quick to snap up the bargains at the annual Friends of the Dunedin Botanic Garden May Plant Sale, being held this Saturday. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Dunedin gardeners will be out in force this Saturday, eager to snap up the bargains at the popular annual Friends of the Dunedin Botanic Garden May Plant Sale.

The Dunedin City Library is getting a much-needed upgrade to improve its entranceway for those with accessibility needs and users of the basement carpark.

Dunedin Marathon chairwoman Becs Adlam is looking forward to the return of the Emerson’s Dunedin Marathon on September 15. PHOTO: SIMON HENDERSON Fitness, family, and friendship will come together when Emerson’s Dunedin Marathon returns for the 45th time on September 5.

The annual Trees for Families event returns on Mother’s Day this Sunday, providing an opportunity to plant a tree or shrub in honour of someone you love.

As shoppers eagerly await the return of Kmart to Dunedin, worries about potential car congestion at the entrance on Macandrew Rd have been addressed.

South Dunedin. PHOTO: ODT FILES As the government moves on from Three Waters it is time for a review of the nitty gritty of what actually happened in Otago under the proposal.

What should health provision look like for Queenstown? PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY What should health localities set out to achieve, Kerry Hand asks.

Photo: RNZ Insight/Tess Brunton Yes, of course I’ve got a phone and of course I hate it and I use it as little as possible.

Spectators at Forbury Park as Bundaberg wins the St Clair Handicap. — Otago Witness, 20.5.1924 Overnight conditions were anything but promising for the opening of the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting.

Departing New Zealand String Quartet second violinist Monique Lapins at Zealandia in Wellington. Photo: supplied On her last tour with the New Zealand String Quartet second violinist Monique Lapins is finding the experience bittersweet.

Contours of Central, by Sally Paterson. Photos: L Elliott "Paint, Pottery, Pixels", Gretl Barzotto, Kathi McLean and Sally Paterson (Heafey Gallery, Central Stories Museum & Gallery, Alexandra) In Central Stories’ Heafey Gallery, painter Gretl Barzotto, ceramicist Kathi McLean, and photographer Sally Paterson explore the vistas and history of Central Otago.

Davies keeps it simple with just the Te Tupua costume to set the scene. Photos: supplied For the first time in 50 years of theatre involvement, John Davies is hitting the boards alone in a solo show that incorporates his two loves — the Japanese theatre form Noh and New Zealand history.

Photo: RNZ An ambulance transporting a patient to hospital has collided with a school bus in central Auckland.

Photo: ODT files Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) will be rallying in Dunedin and Invercargill tomorrow, calling on the Government to increase funding to health in Budget 2024, to resolve the staffing crisis.

Beautiful blue and gold macaw has been flying free around Mosgiel and North Taieri for the past week and a half!

PHOTO: SANDY EGGLESTON Gore Health staff tuck into a hearty hamburger lunch prepared by the Rapid Relief team led by Jackie (third from right) and Scott Malcolm (second from right).

Holding some of the ducks shot on a northern Southland pond on opening weekend are (back from left) Meila Scully, 11, Geraldine (Granny) Coughlan, of Ireland, Michelle Power and Wendy Scully, (front from left) Charlotte Coughlan, 2, Jaelyn Scully, 9, and Edmund Coughlan, 6. PHOTO: SUPPLIED A Riversdale woman has not missed an opening day since she started duck-shooting with her father about 20 years ago.

The first Deep South Fibre Festival has been hailed as a huge success.