Twenty-four prisoners from Napier arrived at Dunedin International Airport yesterday, bound for the Otago Corrections Facility, following a health scare that prompted an evacuation of the Hawkes Bay Prison.
Hundreds of people lined vantage points to wave at Dunedin's most special truck convoy as it travelled through the city and suburbs yesterday in what was indeed a special day for its passengers.
A 23-year-old man underwent surgery in Dunedin Hospital yesterday for a head injury and a broken jaw received during an alleged assault in Northeast Valley, Dunedin, early on Saturday.
A property in the Dunedin suburb of Kew has been declared safe after a minor slip last week took with it part of the property's boundary fence and a metre-deep chunk of the yard, the owner said yesterday.
Four patients and four staff have fallen ill with new suspected cases of the contagious norovirus, despite the vigorous efforts of staff to contain the virus.
Some Dunedin supermarket owners have been called socially irresponsible after selling beer at 83c a can last Friday, the day before the unofficial Undie 500.
Undie 500 weekend shame has hit Dunedin again, and this time police are looking to Otago students for the blame.
The registrar for Private Investigators and Security Guards will hold a three-day hearing in Dunedin to hear the objections of 16 people opposed to the renewal of the licence for Dunedin private investi-gator Peter Gibbons.
Police have issued about 30 speeding tickets and caught one driver travelling 42kmh over the speed limit during the first two weeks of an operation targeting speeders on State Highway 88 between Ravensbourne and Port Chalmers.
An injured crewman from a Japanese fishing trawler was safely airlifted from the vessel, more than 200km from shore, and taken to Dunedin Hospital this morning.
Mainland Air's service between Dunedin and Central Otago has been stopped due to low patronage, one of the company's managers says.
Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin does not accept claims from student leaders that city authorities' decision to push for the cancellation of the Undie 500 could result in an underground event which was even less controlled.
Mosgiel police have recovered several items they believe may have been stolen from residents' vehicles over the past month.
Dunedin Hospital management has backed its cleaning procedures and staff, as the number of people infected by norovirus while in the hospital continues to climb.
Extra officers will be called in from Canterbury, Invercargill and rural parts of Otago this weekend as Dunedin police prepare for the likely arrival of a rogue Undie 500 event.
The public will not be allowed to bring their own alcohol to the biggest racing fixture south of the Waitaki River this year.
A young Dunedin woman was rescued by a passerby yesterday after her vehicle came to a halt leaning precariously down a rock wall after it had skated across and off the edge of Portobello Rd during a hail shower.
Dunedin Hospital remains under lockdown this morning as managers try to contain the spread of a highly infectious norovirus after 17 more cases were reported at the weekend.
Police yesterday named a 22-year-old Wanaka man whose body was discovered on the foreshore of Lake Wanaka about 7.20am on Saturday.
As the court system finishes with last year's offenders, a new group of participants is understood to be gearing up to head south for the annual rally formerly known as the Undie 500.
