An SOS put out by a Dunedin resource offering free curtains to the community has been heard.

Dunedin curtain bank has received over $3000 in walk-in donations and online pledges towards its givealittle campaign in the last few days.

But that might still not be enough to ensure it survives the winter.

Seven months in to the $20,000,000 restoration of Dunedin's courthouse, the contractors say work is progressing well.

Amalgamated Builders say when their work is completed, the 115 year old structure will have between 60 - 70 % the strength of a new building.

Otago was experienced the second strongest growth in rural property sales in the nation for the three months ended April.

Data released Real Estate Institute of NZ shows there were 66 more farm sales, up 16.2%, for the three months ended April 2017 compared with the same period last year.

Fans of schoolboy rugby witnessed a real treat as the Otago Boys' High School first 15 walloped the King's High School team yesterday.

Dunedin's Cosy Homes Charitable Trust is offering a free workshop tonight on cheap and easy heating and insulation ideas.

The Trust was established in 2015 to help those who find themselves unable to keep their homes warm and dry.

A Dunedin City Council report found healthcare was "one of the biggest costs associated with poor quality housing" in the region.

Palmerston's community board will ask the Waitaki District Council to move the town's bus stop back to its original location.

This is following growing community frustration with the new site.

A year ago the stop moved from Bond St to Sanday St to create six more parks outside local businesses.

New Zealand's mainland Yellow-eyed penguins could vanish by 2060.

New research from the University of Otago is showing the species could be locally extinct unless urgent action is taken.

The study also points to where conservation efforts can be most effective in building penguin resilience against climate change.

The Frontier touring company has announced a new show from UK songwriter Ed Sheeran in Dunedin.

Pre-sale tickets to Sheeran's first show sold out in just 20 minutes yesterday.

The second show is scheduled for March 31st, following the first show on March 29th.

Begging the question: what's he going to do on March 30th?

The University of Otago has put a non-slip surface on some of the more slippery tiles around campus.

The safety of the tiles has been an on-going issue since they were first applied in the early nineties.

Dunedin police have taken decisive action against a rise in petty crime over the last couple of weeks, including making arrests for trespassing at residential properties in the Caversham and Brighton areas on Friday.

Reports of the incidents have been doing the rounds on social media, and police are warning the community to remain vigilant.

There are plans to use rifles with thermal imaging sights to wipe out wallabies that have crossed the Waitaki River from Canterbury into Otago.

The introduced Bennets wallaby is considered a pest that could cost farmers millions of dollars if the beasts are not contained.

A former Otago University Students Association President is concerned at a lack of public consultation over university plans to roll out a network of 60 CCTV cameras in North Dunedin.

Paul Gourlie, who served as student president from 1979 to 1980, says he has written to the Dunedin City Council protesting the move.

Work to convert part of Jetty Street to pedestrian use will start at the end of this month.

The section of Jetty Street between Cumberland and Vogel Streets will be closed to all traffic, and the section between Vogel and Crawford Streets will be open to service vehicles only.

The work will cost around $550,000 and is expected to take four or five months.

Pre-Sale tickets to next year's Ed Sheeran concert at Forsyth Barr stadium went on sale at 2pm this afternoon.

And sold out fast.

Researchers have found Dunedin is home to a whale population with a density and variety of national significance.

Otago University marine science lecturer Dr Will Rayment says a survey of the coast off Dunedin shows that it is home to a surprisingly large population of cetaceans.

Protesters hit ANZ Dunedin today in protest against the bank's investments in coal, oil and gas.

A group of fifty protesters sang and danced in the George St bank.

Sea Shepard workers and volunteers from Queens High School cleaned an area of shore along Portsmouth Drive in Dunedin on Sunday.

This is the second time in a month the crew has cleaned the area, where they say a lot of rubbish has accumulated since the previous clean.

The University of Otago has unveiled a plan to dot 60 cameras around the student quarter and central Dunedin at a cost of more than one million dollars.

The University hopes to begin work this year on campus, before going to phase two off campus next year.

The Dunedin City Council has agreed to a request from OSPRI to undertake a pest control operation using 1080 on council land in the Silverstream catchment area.

The 1080 application is likely to begin on or after June the 5th.

DCC Chief Executive Sue Bidrose says the DCC gave serious consideration to the proposal before permission was approved.

Dunedin Police are keen to speak with the driver of a 4-wheel drive vehicle which sped around an inner-city corner, dumping a couch in the process.