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Stopping several hundred seagulls fouling the Dunedin water supply is proving difficult, the Dunedin City Council says.

Channel 9 viewers can watch their favourite shows on the Freeview HD platform from Wednesday.

Police will take a hard line with those involved in lighting couch fires in the student quarter, after a spike in call-outs last month.

The Otago businesswoman behind Dunedin's proposed waterfront hotel stepped into the public arena yesterday, talking about her passion for the city and the vision for the future.

Dunedin police will be targeting a North Dunedin intersection after an Otago Daily Times video showed numerous vehicles running red and amber lights.

Many north Dunedin drivers have a rather loose grasp of the road rules when it comes to traffic lights.

English commentator and former test great Geoffrey Boycott has slammed the University Oval pitch following the first test draw in Dunedin, saying similar pitches would kill test cricket.

The Otago Regional Council has awarded new contracts for Dunedin public bus services, despite a threat from the New Zealand Transport Agency that it would not subsidise the services.

The Toitu Otago Settlers Museum's $37.5 million redevelopment is adding to Dunedin's growing reputation as a nationally significant culture and heritage visitor destination, museum director Linda Wigley says.

Three men on a lunchtime surf off the coast of Dunedin are being heralded as heroes after a day trip to the beach went horribly wrong for a large group of Dunedin schoolgirls.