A political debate in Queenstown later this month will be the biggest gathering of major party leaders in the 2008 election race and the largest gathering of its type in Queenstown for many years, organisers say.
It is not very often a community group approaches Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes district councils' community road adviser Jo Henderson and says it wants to raise money for road safety.
A business that expanded into Australia two and a-half years ago is keeping the link with Queenstown strong.
Dunedin smokers will instantly be fined up to $150 if caught dropping cigarette butts on the city's streets if the Dunedin City Council heeds a petition to be presented to it early next year.
Applause broke out at a forum on the topic of ACC in Dunedin on Saturday when the National Party's candidate for Dunedin North, Michael Woodhouse, agreed that an independent authority should be set up to deal with complaints against the corporation.
After a hitch or two, the demolition of a 50m industrial chimney at Burnside, Dunedin, went off with a bang on Saturday.
Two Dunedin private investigators seem likely to have their licences renewed after all 16 objectors to the renewals abruptly withdrew from a special hearing in Dunedin yesterday.
A Dunedin couple has warned people to think of their own safety before giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to someone they do not know, after helping out at this accident on South Rd last month.
An inquest into the March 2005 death of Dunedin teenager Nicholas Munro was adjourned yesterday following an indication to the coroner from Mr Munro's family that it intended to lodge a complaint with the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
A registrar's decision to renew the licence of two Dunedin private investigators has highlighted the lead objector's obstructive and defiantly aggressive manner during a hearing at the Dunedin District Court last week.
The Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter service had a successful year, with the transition from one major sponsor to another well managed, Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust chairman Ross Black says.
'Put up or shut up' is what Peter Gibbons and Graeme Scott have to say to their critics. For nearly two years, the Dunedin private investigators have been at the centre of allegations from some ACC recipients of inappropriate behaviour while they were contracted to ACC's fraud unit. Now legal proceedings against them are over, Mr Gibbons and Mr Scott speak out. Debbie Porteous reports.
Two high-level independent peer reviews of the case files of Dunedin private investigators Peter Gibbons and Graeme Scott found investigations they carried out for ACC's fraud unit were conducted professionally and ethically and provided enough evidence for prosecutions to be laid.
He had no personal vendetta against two men who investigated him for ACC fraud in 2006, Dunedin man Bruce Van Essen yesterday told a tribunal considering multiple objections to the renewal of the men's private investigator licences.
Otago courts have wiped more than $5.5 million in fines in the past three years in return for a sentence of community work or a brief prison term.
David Bain's lawyers have applied to the Christchurch District Court to examine new Crown witnesses before Bain's retrial on five murder charges - a move that would, if granted, be unusual and surprising, says a leading New Zealand defence lawyer.
Police debrief following disorder after the arrival in Dunedin of an unofficial Undie 500 event last month has identified the emptying of a student bar as the main catalyst for events that followed.
Migrants want to fit into Dunedin life but are being hampered by a lack of support and community understanding, according to the Dunedin Multi Ethnic Council.
Ambulance service St John is pleading with the public to stop attacking its staff after seven reported assaults in the past three years in the northern region of the South Island - the most recent leaving an officer with a fractured arm.
A group of youths sparked a large police response after "innocently" playing with a gun inside a car in a South Dunedin car park the day after an Auckland police officer was killed by an air gun.