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Moments before Dunedin skateboarder Salvador Martin-Bulfin ploughed into the pavement, he was weighing up his options.

RadioLive host Sean Plunket has labelled Eleanor Catton an "ungrateful hua" over her criticism of the National Government and the country's tall poppy syndrome.

Bad light could stop play at the University Oval after the Dunedin City Council baulked at the $2.5 million cost of installing floodlights for day-night cricket events at the venue.

The aggression of Dunedin motorists towards cyclists has a mother fearing for her children's lives.

A cluster of large scrub fires stretching for kilometres south of Oamaru saw firefighters scramble yesterday afternoon.

The shadowy and little-known existential infrastructure services unit at the Dunedin City Council was set up to deal with issues of existence, philosophy and the absurd. The unit was housed in crawl space behind the stone facades of the Municipal Chambers and its reception area was an intolerably low and stuffy room in the ceiling of the Skeggs Gallery.

Dunedin police are disappointed by the poor driving displayed by central city motorists yesterday during an early morning red light and cellphone blitz.

Landlords of substandard properties need to shape up their business or sell up, a Dunedin minister says.

The Otago Regional Council is annoyed a group of artists have painted a mural on a Water of Leith wall without first gaining council permission.

An animated video clip depicting the chief executive as a dancing Christmas elf has reportedly ''stunned'' some doctors at the Southern District Health Board.