Shawn McAvinue

Puppy farms and dog fighting were topics Labour's animal welfare spokesman Trevor Mallard sank his teeth into at the SPCA Otago in Dunedin yesterday.

The family of a Dunedin hunter missing in South Canterbury accepts he may not be coming home.

Neighbours are disappointed a Port Chalmers state house remains vacant as prospective tenants prefer other suburbs.

The score of parked vehicles for sale on both sides of a busy South Dunedin road is forcing children to dice with danger after exiting double-parked cars, and making elderly mourners park further away to attend a funeral, says a concerned neighbour.

The ''bad'' condition of the ''old cottage hospital'' in Palmerston has prompted a community fundraising drive to build a new medical centre to keep doctors in the district.

A large chiller to store fresh produce would be warmly received by a Mosgiel foodbank.

Curator Hana Aoake (24), of Auckland, looks over her exhibition, iD2K16, at Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Dunedin yesterday.

Die-hard fans are bringing out their Scottish apparel for the Rod Stewart concert in Dunedin tomorrow.

The sale of Carisbrook remains has put iPads in the hands of children in Dunedin Hospital.

The horns of 55 Minis were tooted and the 112 vehicle occupants hollered as the Pork Pie Charity Run drove into Dunedin's lower Octagon at lunchtime yesterday.

It was more a sibling harmony than rivalry for two winning Dunedin country music singers.

The Southern District Health Board is promising more breast reconstruction surgeries but remains tight-lipped on how this will be achieved, leaving women on the waiting list in the dark.

Hopes are fading of finding Alexandra woman Denise Potter alive but the search will continue, police say.

The search for missing Alexandra woman Denise Potter continues in Dunedin today with a coastal search.

Craig Mitchell guided his stricken Cessna 182 to a crash landing in the soft sand of Tomahawk Beach to avoid people walking on the hard sand, who were unaware of the impending danger.

A Dunedin couple were recovering after chasing a man who stopped at a service station in their stolen car to buy a pie.

The ''dribbling'' on the large mural on two walls of the Scenic Hotel Southern Cross in Rattray St is a mark of the artist's style, Dunedin Street Art spokesman Glen Hazelton says.

A pensioner couple wanting to return to Port Chalmers are angered to learn a state house has been vacant in the Dunedin suburb for several years.

A failed ram-raid, an attempted robbery with an axe and an abandoned police chase could all be linked, police believe.