Shawn McAvinue

A St John ambulance officer treats a patient after a two car collision on Otago Peninsula yesterday.

A Dunedin strip bar will be staying open past 1am on Anzac Day, despite other city bars seeking late licences being declined.

The Dunedin Tattoo and Art Show next Saturday is not suitable viewing for children, says organiser Macaela Manuel.

A Dunedin grower's fresh vegetables have kept customers coming back to the farmers' market for the past 10 years.

Dunedin band Six60 was back home at the weekend in front of a sellout crowd before taking its ''energy, passion, power'' to the rest of the world.

The Government should drop its proposal to allow the commercial harvesting of paua in Otago or the fishery will be ''destroyed for the short-term financial benefit of a few,'' Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.

Tahuna Normal Intermediate School pupils Jemelia Fraser-Hosking (left) and Keisha Boyle perform Maori songs to Marne Street Hospital residents yesterday on the final day of the Dunedin hospital's ''culture week''.

The slippery surface of a worn South Otago road ''let down'' a female Dunedin motorist and contributed to her death, Otago-Southland coroner David Crerar says.

Time is the currency traded in the new scheme part-funded by Dunedin City Council.

More Dunedin collection depots will open today for people to recycle unwanted televisions, Dunedin City Council waste strategy officer Catherine Irvine says.

A 99-year-old Dunedin house is to be moved to a site in East Taieri.

The neglected graves of the lighthouse keeper's children buried at Cape Saunders more than 100 years ago have been restored.

Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is entered in a national construction award contest in a bid to be named New Zealand's best industrial building.

The groundswell of opposition against a proposal to open up coastline in Otago and Southland to commercial paua harvesting is building strongly despite the ''smoke and mirrors'' of the commercial paua industry, Paua to the People spokesmen say.

A Waikouaiti genealogist has spent many Sundays photographing graves and plaques of servicemen and women in Otago cemeteries to help family historians fill gaps.

Voice coach Lisa Tui Jonathan helps people with Parkinson's rediscover their voices at a seminar in Dunedin yesterday.

Messages of support for Department of Conservation staff covered the doors of the Dunedin office yesterday in an appeal to the Government to reconsider cutting jobs.