David Loughrey

A guilty plea by the University of Otago in a health and safety case has led to $60,000 reparation for a woman left permanently disabled, and a promise to fix a building the Dunedin District Court heard had caused serious injury.

An otherwise successful fund raising effort by about 200 people in the Octagon overnight has been marred by the theft of a donation bucket full of money that would have gone to the homeless.

It is three decades since one of the darker episodes in electrical engineering history took place in Dunedin. David Loughrey looks back to the 1980s with an excerpt from his soon-to-be-released book Hot Solder: The Andrew Hollison Story*, on the life of an enigmatic and controversial Dunedin electrical engineer.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says the Dunedin City Council will soon begin a major push to attract hotel development to the city.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull came under fire from hoteliers yesterday who said his belief the city needed an increase in quality hotel accommodation was wrong.

The booming tourism industry, expected to overtake dairy as New Zealand's biggest export earner this year, means not all is ''doom and gloom'' in the New Zealand economy.

More than 200 tourism operators and suppliers are in Dunedin this week for a conference that should give Dunedin operators the chance to promote their products.

After 26 years selling high-end second-hand fashion clothing in Moray Pl, Dunedin, it is unclear whether Fiona van Leeuwen will miss her customers more than they will miss her.

When Hannah Scott lay in Dunedin's intensive care unit in a coma in 2009, doctors told her parents to be ''realistic'' about her chances.

It comes from an age when utilitarian purpose did not preclude elegant design of the very latest fashion. The Ward St substation is one Dunedin's finest infrastructure buildings, an art deco masterpiece that once provided careers for tidy, introspective loners.

Police, Worksafe and the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association are investigating the death of an Australian heli-skier in an avalanche near Queenstown on Monday.

A plan to better educate and screen overseas drivers hiring rental cars in New Zealand should be in place by October.

Dunedin city councillors will face considerable opposition to plans to cut community board and community board member numbers when they hear the public's views on the issue tomorrow.

It is a blur out the window as you shoot down the Southern Motorway. It is a haven of quiet under the gaze of Saddle Hill. It is near Green Island, but not of it. Suburban travel reporter David Loughrey reports back from Abbotsford.

Dunedin is set to get an extra flight to Brisbane over the Christmas period.

A Dunedin fashion designer has been given a boost as she considers a return to the craft, after a career detour into the funeral industry and social sector.