Debbie Porteous

Norovirus is thought to have affected 60 passengers on the cruise liner Volendam which visited Dunedin yesterday.

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.

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.

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.