About 40 people who joined a protest yesterday against the recent arrests on Otago University's campus of three political activists were themselves the target of a smaller group protesting the use of illegal drugs on campus.
About 600 people marched up Dunedin's main shopping street today to protest against ratepayer contributions being used for the proposed Awatea St Stadium.
A vocal crowd of people marched along Dunedin's main shopping street on Saturday to protest against ratepayer contributions for the proposed Awatea St Stadium.
The demise of the Otago branch of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Association marks the beginning of a gradual, but inevitable, disappearance of specialist returned servicemen's groups, the association's chairman says.
Two drugs raids on Wednesday resulted in Dunedin police making four arrests.
The MetService has issued a severe weather warning for continuing rain in Coastal Otago, with 20-30mm expected along the coast up to 5am tomorrow.
A 32-year-old truck driver was left swinging last night when the truck he was driving rolled over the side of a bridge near Browns, in Southland.
"Jetpack" mastermind Glenn Martin was always hell-bent on danger, one of his school friends says.
MetService forecasters say a storm moving slowly south is likely to hit Otago late tonight, but its impact will be substantially less than that in the North Island.
Environment Southland is likely to seek clean-up costs from the owner-operator of a truck that lost a container full of rubbish in the Makarewa River.
A seventeen-year-old Dunedin girl was taken to hospital in shock yesterday, after the car she was driving left the road and careered about 80m through a central Dunedin playground, before coming to rest against a memorial fence.
Dunedin's controversial student quarter patrol has faced its first real voices of dissent after 18 months on the street. Debbie Porteous reports on the social experiment that is Campus Watch.
The University of Otago stood by the use by police of plain-clothes officers on campus if that was what police believed was required when dealing with people breaking the law there, university director of student services David Richardson said yesterday.
Police are making no apologies for using undercover officers on the University of Otago campus and say they will continue doing so.
The Cook-a-thon has become a victim of its own success, the organisers say.
Soaring reported rates of family violence are not necessarily bad news, police say.
The parents of a former champion British weightlifter who moved to New Zealand to "live his dream" are to have his body sent home after he collapsed and died in Dunedin last week.
A last resort letter-writing campaign has raised about a quarter of the amount the Prison Fellowship needs to avert a financial crisis which could see the end of some of its best known prisoner rehabilitation programmes.
Dunedin police are concerned about dangerous pranks around the city.
Two unidentified packages delivered to National MP Katherine Rich's Dunedin office this morning were not dangerous, Dunedin police say.
