Vaughan Elder

The Dunedin City Council has a fight on its hands over proposed changes to the city's alcohol laws, with more than 4000 supporting a campaign opposing them.

Plans to close some Otago roads for the Targa New Zealand rally have put some affected residents into a spin.

The Otago Peninsula Community Board is backing the Targa South Island rally despite some resident opposition to the closure of Highcliff Rd.

A developer hoping to breathe new life into an historic Dunedin building has slammed the Dunedin City Council after a planner recommended his resource consent application be declined.

A law change means it would be next to impossible for the Dunedin City Council to introduce a liquor ban to curb student mischief in the Dunedin Botanic Garden.

A Dunedin city councillor is calling for video surveillance of the student quarter as a way of preventing out-of-control vandalism.

The University of Otago is investigating installing ''gender-neutral'' toilets after calls from the trans community, who say they face being abused when going to the toilet.

AgResearch is planning another round of redundancies amid accusations it is monitoring the communications of ''less than compliant'' staff members.

Apple Maps is still misplacing Dunedin International Airport in the Octagon almost two years after the problem was first reported.

AgResearch has come under fire after revealing it has paid almost $170,000 to public relations companies as part of its restructuring.

Sixty short-term jobs are expected when Silverstream reopens next month for processing bobby calves.

Dunedin-based mental health and disability services provider Pact must pay staff more than $50,000 in back pay after acting in ''serious bad faith'' during pay negotiations.

The massive contribution University of Otago makes to Dunedin has been highlighted in a report showing it boosted the city's economy by $820 million last year.

With prices for healthy food rising and junk food getting cheaper, shopping is becoming tougher - and a researcher says that supermarkets are not making it any easier.

Dunedin police have had another busy Sunday night dealing with cases of domestic violence.

Dunedin's education sector is working on an ambitious plan to boost the city's economy by more than $160 million a year by attracting more international students.

Lowering the drinking age has resulted in more young men being hospitalised with assault injuries, University of Otago research has found.

A researcher who found 6% of University of Auckland students had used drugs to boost academic performance believes the practice is probably just as prevalent in Dunedin.

Academic divisions at the University of Otago have agreed to tighten their belts in the wake of a multimillion-dollar shortfall caused by a failure to meet forecast student numbers.

Police hunting fugitive Stephen Uriah Maddren (25) are chasing their most solid lead yet, with two break-ins overnight in Milburn near the prison he escaped from.