Planned strikes at the McDonald's in Andersons Bay Rd and McDonald's outlets across the country were called off by Unite union yesterday after it reached a ''historic'' agreement with the fast-food chain over zero-hour contracts.
Dunedin City Council safe and sustainable travel co-ordinator Charlotte Flaherty talks to cyclist Matt Cosgrove in Portsmouth Dr, Dunedin, yesterday as part of a campaign to promote the wearing of high-visibility gear by cyclists.
Philippa Wilson's sculpture Grace, part of an exhibition in the First Church grounds commemorating the centenary of World War 1, is dwarfed by the spire.
Speakers at this year's International Workers' Memorial Day commemoration in Dunedin yesterday were alternately rousing and sober, militant and mournful.
The Taieri Blokes' Shed may only be open six hours a week, but it takes up almost all of president Ian Miller's time.
A merry band of four guerrilla sycamore assassins went after a stretch of the trees along State Highway 88 this week.
Carole Stringer holds a knitted poppy wreath at the Summerset retirement village in Dunedin yesterday.
There has been an ''encouraging'' increase in first-year international student numbers at the University of Otago, but it continues to lag behind other universities in attracting overseas students.
Parking remains a hot issue for Dunedin's cruise ship tour operators. Carla Green reports.
Parents Centres Week is usually in June, Emma Currie says.
About 20 union members and supporters demonstrated outside McDonald's and Wendy's in Andersons Bay Rd yesterday as union talks with McDonald's remained at a standstill around zero-hour contracts.
A decision on resource consent for a show farm designed to attract ''high end'' Chinese tourists had taken longer than expected, but would ''be out within a week or two'', committee chairwoman Kate Wilson said yesterday.
A public meeting on marine protection in Dunedin at the weekend was well attended - about 90 people came - and the discussion was heated.
This year marks the Otago Community Hospice's 25th birthday, and the Otago Daily Times is running a fortnightly series on the hospice to celebrate. Since it was founded in 1990, the hospice has grown from a mostly volunteer-run operation to a community institution that provides palliative care to hundreds of patients a year. The hospice relies on the Dunedin community to provide a significant portion of its yearly operating budget in donations, and needs to raise $430,000 by the end of June.
TS Waireka sea cadet Rebekah Langsbury and RSA member Cyril McDermott sell poppies in George St, Dunedin, yesterday.
Police are investigating the theft of hiking gear and a handbag from a tourists' camper van near Dunedin on Thursday
Strike action planned at five McDonald's sites tomorrow would go ahead, a union official said yesterday.
University of Otago vice-chancellor Prof Harlene Hayne has warned there will be consequences if there is ''overt promotion of illegal behaviour'' at the screening of a Dunedin-inspired documentary about the war on drugs.
Bokyong Mun was ''a little bit'' worried about setting out on a three-day trip in a kayak made out of recycled plastic bottles.
An updated natural hazards plan for Dunedin represents ''a pulling back'' from a previous proposal that would have blocked new development in some areas.