Lives could be saved from drink-driving crashes if police stopped threatening $10,000 fines and supported unlicensed passenger services, the creators of a Dunedin social media campaign say.
Police searched a Dunedin home yesterday for clues relating to the disappearance of a mother who went missing 12 years ago.
Making a South Dunedin street one-way is inconveniencing hundreds of motorists daily for the safety of a sole cyclist, Marlow St resident Trevor McStay says.
The workforce in Otago is getting older and the businesses targeting the growing demographic will prosper.
Dunedin employers are giving young people a chance, Altitude Programme manager Sonya Hill says.
It was a meeting more than two years in the making.
The cat-killing virus at Otago SPCA has gone and adoptions have resumed but rigorous cleaning continues.
A cat found with a slipped collar around its belly, in a ring of rotted flesh, is healing and ready for adoption.
An aviation programme for year 13 pupils is continuing to take off in Mosgiel.
Employers have been asked to kick-start the careers of five Dunedin youths who graduated from the Limited Service Volunteer programme.
Kiriau family members are ''raw'' as they plan funerals for the brother and sister killed in a high-speed crash on the Southern Motorway on Sunday.
The police search of a Dunedin home on Friday provided no major leads relating to the disappearance of a mother who went missing 12 years ago, Detective Senior Sergeant Malcolm Inglis said yesterday.
Bidding was hot for 30 new tea cosies at a charity auction in Northeast Valley on Saturday.
The minds of about 30 people were trained on selflessness by a buddhist monk in Dunedin on Saturday.
Youth Week was launched in Dunedin with a skate jam at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday.
More young singers are taking to the stage in Dunedin to perform stage tunes.
Kim Woods with children Hudson (1) and Corban (1 week) at their Glenross, Dunedin, home yesterday. Photo by Craig Baxter.
The extra four weeks of paid parental leave was a move in the right direction but not enough, Dunedin early childhood centre teacher and manager Kim Woods said yesterday.
Mrs Woods (29), of Glenross, said her son, Corban, was born last week and she had used her sick leave, annual leave and was about to start her 14 weeks' paid parental leave.
Machete-wielding weighmen cut fodder across the greater Taieri Plain yesterday for a winter crop growing competition.
Dog owners say Mosgiel dog park is weed-infested and unsafe, and needs urgent maintenance.
Southern youth are coping ''surprising well'' with psychoactive substance withdrawal and are not seeking alternative highs.