Shawn McAvinue

Dunedin City Council has taken more action on abandoned vehicle complaints and so reduced the number of vehicles it has to dispose of.

David killed Goliath, and the Oil Free Otago flotilla set to sail tonight can stop the Anadarko drill ship, the Rev Peter Matheson says.

Vintage cars and classic hits was the theme at the Music in the Park event at Aramoana Domain yesterday.

An extended article on the strange marine mammals uncovered by a University of Otago research student in San Francisco has appeared in the latest edition of a French scientific journal.

Bouncy castle injuries have inflated in the South and the age of those getting hurt is rising.

Earth penetrating radar could be used to locate unmarked graves in Middlemarch Cemetery.

The candles are set to be blown out as funding is approved for solar lighting at the Leaning Lodge hut.

A Dunedin lamppost at the ''end of its useful life'' is replaced in Taieri Rd, Dunedin.

Metiria Turei, according to her political adversaries, lives in a castle. She comes to Parliament dressed in $2000 Adrienne Winkelmann designer jackets. And then she wants to talk about poverty.

A veteran protester arrived in Dunedin yesterday to help the city quit its oil addiction.

Fewer Europeans, Maori and Pacific people are smoking tobacco in the South but Asians in Southland are bucking the national trend and opting to inhale.

A Warrington couple are attempting to make mountaineering history on an expedition to the Himalayas.

Horses hoofed it up George St yesterday in the Ride the Rhythm street parade.

Trees in the Octagon and their new look after an arborist applied a mix of compost tea and a lime wash yesterday morning.