Vaughan Elder

A British tourist hopes his near-death experience at the hands of a foreign driver prevents a repeat of the crash that killed a 5-year-old Oamaru girl.

Former Dunedin mayor Peter Chin is feeling better by the day, a month on from a bypass operation after he collapsed on an Air New Zealand flight.

A Dunedin City Council senior manager has apologised to councillors over a staff member appearing to pre-empt a council decision on cycleway funding.

An elm has caused a nightmare for some residents of a Mosgiel street, but the owner's plans to cut it down have been opposed by Dunedin City Council staff.

Dunedin needs to step up its fight against graffiti amid a spike in tagging across the city, Cr David Benson-Pope says.

The mother of a man who died in Otago Corrections Facility is devastated at a decision by police not to lay charges, but is not giving up her fight for ''justice''.

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

The owners of John Wickliffe House have appealed a Dunedin City Council decision to decline their resource consent to paint and repair the building.

Dunedin City councillor Lee Vandervis' aggression towards colleagues was slammed as unacceptable at a code of conduct hearing yesterday.

A Dunedin man believes he has the answer to a mystery at the centre of a decades-old dispute over quarrying on Saddle Hill.

A code of conduct complaint against Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis has revealed fresh details about the police investigation into the alleged $1.5 million Citifleet fraud.

The Southern District Health Board is developing a policy on the sale of sugary drinks on its premises, but won't say whether a ban is being considered.

Plans to breathe new life into a historic Dunedin harbourside building have been put on hold because of an Environment Court appeal.

Australian street artist Fintan Magee's art work in Dunedin is so large he needs a new lift.

Countdown has pulled out of a resource consent hearing next week for a $15 million Mosgiel supermarket after a planner recommended consent be declined.

A criminologist is hailing a plan to get Notorious Mongrel Mob and Black Power members mowing Dunedin lawns, but warns history shows the arrangement is not without pitfalls.

The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement was labelled a ''dirty deal'' and an attack on democracy as 1500 protesters rallied in the Octagon to voice their displeasure on Saturday.

Dunedin's Rattray St is about to get some much needed love, when Australian street artist Fintan Magee starts work on a ''massive'' mural there next week.