Almost $30 million has been taken out of the Dunedin City Council’s proposed capital spending programme for the next year amid construction delays for waste management facilities.

Meet Disco Shrimp.

A Dunedin woman lied about having terminally ill parents to secure a tenancy from which thousands of dollars of furnishings later went missing.

Any restoration of train services to Middlemarch will not be on a fast track.

Two weeks ago, Ruby Patton was ill in a hospital bed, seemingly unconscious, and was not expected to wake up again.

If it creeps and crawls, then chances are Luca Nikkel will have seen it and photographed it.