As temperatures start to rise and the roads get drier around the southern regions, motorcyclists start dusting off their pride and joy before heading for the open road.

Police were called to a Dunedin candidate meeting where a heckler’s verbal abuse threatened to escalate to violence, reflecting the "sad state of affairs" on the campaign trail, candidates say.

Land once destined to provide state houses in Port Chalmers in Dunedin is being sold on Trade Me, but Kainga Ora is keeping quiet on whether there will be further land sales in the city.

A "scatter-gun" conversation between the University of Otago and the government about the Waikato Medical School proposal suggests the project was railroaded from the start, opponents claim.