The Privy Council will hold a preliminary hearing in London on December 8 to consider a petition requesting it fully acquit David Bain of the 1994 killings of his immediate family in Dunedin.
David Bain will know by early next month if his bid for acquittal on the five counts of murder he faces for the deaths of his immediate family in Dunedin in 1994 will be heard by the Privy Council.
The traditional nationwide two minutes' silence at 11am may have become a memory for many but Armistice Day was honoured by hundreds of people in Otago yesterday.
Some are trying to give Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day more significance this year. It will be hard to miss the large march through central Dunedin tomorrow, but what will you be doing at 11am on Tuesday? Debbie Porteous reports.
"You march because you want to remember what they did, remember how brave they were, because it is so important that you want to keep it alive," says 16-year-old Catherine Campbell.
Dunedin police reported no snow-related incidents on the city's roads after a light dusting of snow this morning.
Gumboots will not be the must-have item for fashionistas at this year's Melbourne Cup races at Wingatui if Sue Smaill has anything to do with it.
A Stoneburn farmer says he is grateful to neighbours and community who have rallied around him after a fire destroyed his home, only months after he bought the farm.
A fire that destroyed a van parked in a car park at the St Clair esplanade in Dunedin yesterday is being treated as arson.
Norovirus is thought to have affected 60 passengers on the cruise liner Volendam which visited Dunedin yesterday.
A Galloway property owner says it is a good thing Neighbourhood Watch is alive and well in the rural community near Alexandra, after a neighbour spotted a man prowling next door and jumped in to action.
The economic slowdown is starting to hit home in Dunedin as the city's least-resilient families increasingly turn to the city's social agencies for help.
A new, more visible, approach to traffic policing in Dunedin city is paying off and it is too bad if people do not like it, the man in charge of Dunedin's traffic and emergency response teams says.
Dunedin police are appealing for public help after two fires at the weekend.
Dunedin schools have pulled out of organising public fireworks displays this year, leaving only one public display in the city.
Victoria Cross winner and Special Air Services soldier Corporal Willie Apiata may be the guest of honour at Dunedin's Armistice Day commemorations this year.
Lynne Hutchings will visit the Balclutha graves of two of her sons this week.
Jim Edwards is a sedimental sort of guy.
A large slip has destroyed hundreds of metres of the Dusky Track linking Lakes Hauroko and Manapouri in Fiordland.
For the first time, Wakatipu basin residents will vote this year as members of New Zealand's biggest geographical electorate, and the Clutha-Southland returning officer is getting ready for a big day.