Car wash calamity: 84-year-old gets foot stuck on accelerator
An 84-year-old driver shot out of a Mosgiel car wash and slammed into a lamppost after getting his foot caught on the accelerator, police say.
Burglar busted as stolen AirPods phone home
Burglar busted as stolen AirPods phone home
The tracking feature on a pair of stolen earbuds led police to a man wanted for two burglaries in Dunedin’s student quarter.
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Warning Aurora power bills may rise $10
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Warning Aurora power bills may rise $10
Household electricity bills for Aurora Energy customers could increase by an average of about $10 a month next year, the Commerce Commission says.
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Support for changes at problem intersection
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Support for changes at problem intersection
Plenty of people have had their say about proposed changes to a prominent and problematic Dunedin intersection.
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Request to remove non-existent tree from protected list
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Request to remove non-existent tree from protected list
A redwood tree that "doesn’t seem to exist at all" is expected to be removed from a council list of significant Dunedin trees.
‘Chilly but dry’ weather tipped for city
‘Chilly but dry’ weather tipped for city
Dunedin is due to return to single-digit highs and freezing overnight temperatures after warm moist air brought unseasonably high night-time temperatures yesterday.
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Family the motivation for fighting on
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Wife, children the motivation, 25 years after fateful day
Twenty-five years after a fateful rugby match left Dunedin man Nick Chisholm with locked-in syndrome, he says his wife and three children are the reason he keeps fighting.
'Nurses are crying, it’s terrible'
'Nurses are crying, it’s terrible'
Dunedin nurses have been reduced to tears by the stress of working long shifts to cover staff shortages.
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$100k of cannabis stashed in storage unit
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$100k of cannabis stashed in storage unit
A Dunedin man who stashed $100,000 of cannabis in a storage unit will be on a curfew for the next six months.
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Anger over axing of scholarships
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Anger over axing of scholarships
Top students will abandon the University of Otago after a shock decision to axe scholarships, the institution has been warned.
Brave brushstrokes
Brave brushstrokes
Bayfield High School students Julia Anderson and Tui Moore, both 17, admire artwork at the Peninsula Schools Art Exhibition yesterday.
Eating well on the cheap when you're a student
Eating well on the cheap when you're a student
Dunedin student Renata Herrera Rojas is determined to get young people feeding their brain properly - without busting the budget.
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MP ‘ill-informed’ on seesaw
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MP ‘ill-informed’ on seesaw
A National MP has been accused of getting his facts wrong after slamming council spending on a central Dunedin seesaw.
Pole 'arcing and burning' after Mosgiel crash
Pole 'arcing and burning' after Mosgiel crash
Emergency services in Mosgiel warned a crashed driver to stay put after seeing "arcing and burning" from a light pole.
‘Flaws’ in Waikato med school business case
‘Flaws’ in Waikato med school business case
The University of Otago is criticising the business case for the Waikato medical school that the government used to justify the project.
Trial for those keen to crew a dragon boat
Trial for those keen to crew a dragon boat
There is a place in the dragon boat for everyone.
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Council tight-lipped on ‘major event’
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Council tight-lipped on ‘major event’
Dunedin appears set to hold a "major event", but the council is refusing to say what it is.
Grant spurs cancer test research
Researchers hunting early pancreatic cancer markers
Dunedin researchers are heading up an international study to identify abnormal DNA markers in order to detect a deadly cancer before it is too late.
Scaffolding put up at court building for maintenance
Scaffolding put up at court building for maintenance
Brazier Scaffolding workers erect scaffolding at the Dunedin District Court yesterday morning.
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Lilliput built as tribute to daughter
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Lilliput built as tribute to daughter
A Mosgiel father is keeping his daughter’s memory alive with a touching tribute that incorporates her love for literature.