Dunedin businessman Robin Sew Hoy was sentenced to 10 months home detention and ordered to pay back $325,000, as per an agreement with the Otago District Health Board, in the High Court at Dunedin today.
Fonterra has accused Greenpeace of selective use of facts, after four activists were arrested during a coal mine protest near Gore.
Octagon bar owners and Dunedin's district licensing authority have reached a compromise on a drinks promotion the DLA believed breached the Sale of Liquor Act.
A Dunedin pensioner, who at age 88 beat her 29-year-old opponent to a singles bowls championship title, yesterday celebrated her 100th birthday.
One person arrested during the weekend the Undie 500 rally arrived in Dunedin has been given diversion and another is being considered for it despite police promising no-one arrested during the disorder would get that option.
There arrests at the weekend following fights outside McDonald's restaurant in George St are probably indicative of what is going on in the city centre, Dunedin police say.
A spat between the authorities and lower Octagon bar owners has started over a promotion offering patrons a discounted taxi home if they buy six drinks in four hours.
It was "hard to imagine" a hearing date for Clayton Weatherston's appeal would be set before Christmas, his lawyer said yesterday.
The main trunk line between Dunedin and Oamaru is expected to reopen about 8pm tonight after a freight train derailed on Wednesday, damaging 800m of the track.
Graham Hansen takes good care of Balaclava School in Dunedin.
Olivia Baker had her first experience with the Fire Service yesterday when she had to be cut out of a tree in her school's playground.
A rapid police response was sparked yesterday when a member of the public witnessed what was apparently a youth pointing a pistol at another youth outside a New Zealand Post shop and Kiwibank branch in Dunedin.
Armistice Day in Dunedin began 12 minutes early yesterday when a blank round from the Robbie Burns cannon in the Octagon was accidentally set off at 10.48am.
Three people asleep in a Kaitangata house destroyed by fire were lucky to escape with only smoke inhalation, a fire safety officer says.
Dunedin fire fighters were called out this morning to extinguish a big blaze involving 30 derelict vehicles, in a yard on Wilkie Rd, behind Tokyo Auto Town in South Dunedin.
Frontline police in the Southern district will soon be using Tasers, with more than 250 officers expected to be trained to use the stun-guns.
Twenty-two police employees appeared in New Zealand courts in the past year facing charges that included rape, assault and manslaughter.
Two restaurateurs and a food writer have graded Dunedin Hospital's inpatient food "tasty" and "very nice" after sampling lunch in the hospital's kitchen yesterday.
Dunedin's resident naval officer is leaving for the bright lights of Wellington and a senior defence force job.
The end of World War 1 will be remembered in Dunedin tomorrow with a service at the cenotaph, two rounds of gun salutes, the firing of the Robbie Burns cannon and a fly-over by a fighter plane.
