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.
Dunedin gun dealers say it is wrong that high-powered air guns can be owned without a licence, but there should not be restrictions on the sale of all air guns.
An alternative temporary base has been found for the St John ambulance service in South Dunedin, but the organisation is still seeking a permanent home in the south of the city.
Vandals have poisoned the Andersons Bay Bowling Club green, leaving a trail of burnt grass and dirt less than three weeks from opening day, green supervisor Kevin Galvin says.
Four more people were arrested yesterday as a police operation targeting an alleged LSD and cannabis dealing syndicate in Dunedin winds up.
A North Dunedin off-licence and its manager have been suspended by the Liquor Licensing Authority after liquor was sold to a minor at the premises in April this year.
A 22-year-old Dunedin man has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm after a lengthy search for a firearm that sparked an armed offenders callout in July.
An overnight graffiti attack on South Dunedin has left residents and business people disgruntled at what they say is the latest in a long line of disturbances in the area.
Have you ever wondered who painted over the graffiti you saw on a wall or building yesterday?It could have been any one of a Dunedin City Council team.
The navy was finding it difficult to sail, the air force had clipped wings, and the army would struggle to take part in combat, the 2007-08 Defence Force annual report reveals.
The report paints a picture of the New Zealand Defence Force hamstrung by a lack of staff and poor equipment.
