Shawn McAvinue

A Dunedin student has upgraded his transport from a $5 pair of shoes to a $46,486 sports car that buying those shoes helped win him.

Knitting is at fever pitch in Dunedin and a charity shop is calling for more wool.

A pedestrian crossing in the Green Island business district needs to be elevated before someone is killed, resident Neville Poole says.

Bus driver Nathan Scott (57) has been transporting passengers around the ''Mosgiel loop'' for nearly five years. In a working day, he drives a bus around the Mosgiel circuit 19 times between 8am and 4pm.

An ''army of supporters'' is being recruited to push the redevelopment of a pool in Mosgiel.

Police have issued a warning after Dunedin drivers came to grief on wet roads at the weekend.

Hardy souls braved bathing in tanks of icy water for at least five minutes for the Heart Stopper Challenge at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday.

A Toitu Otago Settlers Museum provenance report on the leg irons the Dunedin City Council bought for $3900 has been released.

A protest sign - ''legal but lethal, we say no, legal highs all must go''- was the message delivered to local and central government politicians at a Dunedin protest synthetic cannabis on Saturday.

A New Zealand cycle safety panel including Olympic cyclist Alison Shanks will have its first meeting in Wellington on April 15 to make cycling safer on New Zealand roads.

The increase in sexual assaults reported to Dunedin Police is not due to increased offending, Southern District Commander superintendent Andrew Coster says.

A frank conversation about the ''stubbornly persistent'' suicide rate in New Zealand was held in Dunedin last night.

A new swimming pool made the biggest splash at a public meeting in Mosgiel last night on the proposed spending in the Dunedin City Council's draft annual plan.

Australian soprano Rosamund Illing will perform a public concert in Dunedin tomorrow.

A concerned parent picketing outside a store which sells Dunedin synthetic cannabis sparked a heated debate yesterday.

A man was seriously injured in a decommissioned lift at Speight's Brewery in Dunedin yesterday morning, but the circumstances are unclear.

The Dunedin City Council has paid $3900 for the leg irons Mayor Dave Cull pulled from an auction after an investigation he instigated confirmed they could have been used to restrain Maori political prisoners almost 150 years ago.