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    Bar and restaurant Izakaya Yuki, in Bath St, has had its on-licence renewed for another three...

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    Liquor licence renewed despite opposition

    A Dunedin bar whose landlord appealed to the top echelon of the city council about its expired liquor licence has been allowed to keep selling alcohol

    Banned driver fesses up

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    Banned driver fesses up

    A man forbidden from driving turned himself in to police after his car ran out of petrol in the middle of a central Dunedin street.

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    Council’s water plan signed off

    A lot of work could be required in Three Waters in the next decade, including for Dunedin...

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    Council’s water plan signed off

    The Dunedin City Council’s plan for providing water services, and funding them, has been approved.

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    Work under way to restore sand

    Machinery works to distribute sand on Te Rauone Beach. PHOTOS: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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    Work under way to restore sand

    Sand is being restored on Te Rauone Beach after winter storms made their mark.

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    Young designer inspired by ‘fun and vibrant’ Italy

    Third-year bachelor of design (fashion) student Kennedy Lahood-Timu displays her end-of-year...

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    Young designer inspired by ‘fun and vibrant’ Italy

    Inspired by Italy, pieced together in Dunedin, a young designer’s latest fashion collection showcases the essence of the people from one of the fashion capitals of the world.

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    Woman stole mail while on '15-year bender'

    Methamphetamine is the drug of choice for many in New Zealand, according to wastewater testing....

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    Woman stole mail while on '15-year bender'

    A Dunedin woman who stole mail from around the city says she was on a "15-year bender" at the time.

    Bowled over

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    Bowled over

    Wakari School pupil Willa Ewing, 8, got a mini bat signed by Black Caps Mark Chapman, Tim Robinson and Zac Foulkes yesterday

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    Pest presents opportunity to enter growing market

    Southern Clams director Alexis Belton (front) holds a string of the invasive Undaria seaweed...

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    Pest presents opportunity to enter growing market

    An invasive pest seaweed species has made its home in Otago Harbour, but it may not be all bad news.

    Dunedin teen admits threatening to blow up mosque

    Kilbirnie Mosque in Wellington. Photo: RNZ

    Dunedin teen admits threatening to blow up mosque

    A Dunedin teenager has admitted threatening to blow up a Wellington mosque.

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    Solar storms send supplier scrambling

    An Aurora Australis as seen from Hoopers Inlet, near Dunedin. PHOTO: IAN GRIFFIN

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    Solar storms send supplier scrambling

    Updated 10.50 am

    A severe (G4) geomagnetic storm sent Transpower scrambling to remove some South Island electricity transmission lines from service yesterday, in a bid to protect the power grid.

    FENZ called to Little Sisters of the Poor 

    PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

    FENZ called to Little Sisters of the Poor 

    Firefighters use cutting equipment to remove a loose piece of material from a structure at the Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Rest Home in Brockville yesterday.

    Laying the foundations

    Photo: Gerard O'Brien

    Laying the foundations

    Contractors get under way with a massive concrete pour at the new Dunedin hospital inpatients building site yesterday.

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    Tobacco interference index fall ‘shameful’

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    Tobacco interference index fall ‘shameful’

    New Zealand’s dream of becoming smokefree by the end of 2025 appears to have gone up in smoke

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    Shanghai advisers visit Dunedin garden

    Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust chairman Malcolm Wong (left) takes a delegation of Shanghai Chinese...

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    Shanghai advisers visit Dunedin garden

    Nearly two decades after Dunedin’s Chinese garden Lan Yuan was completed, a delegation from Shanghai is visiting the tourist attraction.

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    Simms gets his way in last-minute deal

    Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker and Cr Andrew Simms discuss the economic development portfolio before...

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    Simms gets his way in last-minute deal

    An eleventh-hour agreement with Dunedin’s mayor has elevated first-term councillor Andrew Simms to joint leadership of the city’s economic development portfolio.

    Windy work high above rest home

    Windy work above Brockville rest home

    Firefighters used an aerial appliance to remove a loose cowling flapping in high winds at a rest home in Dunedin today.

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    Small schools to fight closure proposal

    Taieri Beach School pupils (from left) Ryker Cardiff, 11, Colt Weir, 6, Maine Weir, 5, Lucy...

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    Small schools to fight closure proposal

    Two Otago schools with single-figure rolls and earmarked for closure are pushing back against the proposal.

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    Tuition fee increase regrettable: Robertson

    Grant Robertson. File photo: Gregor Richardson

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    Tuition fee increase regrettable: Robertson

    University of Otago vice-chancellor Grant Robertson says it is "highly regrettable" the university has had to increase tuition fees by 6% for the second consecutive year.

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    Controversial Albany St cycleway survives close vote

    The Albany St project was part of a initiative which aimed to provide a safe walking and cycling...

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    Controversial Albany St cycleway survives close vote

    An under-threat Dunedin cycleway and safety project has survived.

    New fossil fish species named after late prof

    Researcher Dr Seabourne Rust holds an artistic reconstruction of the newly described Eocene...

    New fossil fish species named after late prof

    Zealandorhynchus fordycei is not a fish you would want to come face to face with at St Clair Beach.
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