Otago Daily Times: Dunedin

Two weeks after his wife of more than 40 years told him she was leaving him, a retired Roxburgh man shot her twice in the back, the summary of facts of the fatal shooting has revealed.

An inner-city Dunedin resident is concerned the extension of the liquor ban to North Dunedin will cause more problems in streets like hers - those that border the city centre, but fall outside the ban area.

New Zealand primary schools still lag behind their Australian counterparts when it comes to being sun smart, and it may be influencing the lifetime risk of melanoma in future generations, University of Otago research shows.

Mandatory reporting is not the magic answer to preventing child abuse, public law lawyer Mai Chen told a child welfare seminar in Dunedin yesterday.

Public responses appear to be evenly split on whether international tourists should be charged for access to the country's national parks.

Dunedin Hospital will be running an additional acute surgery list by the end of next month if all goes to plan, Southern District Health Board chief operating officer (Otago) Vivian Blake says.