The rumour mill is getting out of hand, Mark Thom says, after an alleged arson threat against his Fairfield property.
The first phase of a long-term project to widen the road from Aramoana to Port Chalmers is due to begin shortly, with the first contract package awarded recently.
A delicate operation to begin the careful process of straightening a building went without a hitch at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum on Monday.
Sexual violence in New Zealand is significantly under-reported, with just 9 per cent of assaults reported, but it is our most costly crime with an estimated social cost of $1.2 billion per year.
Raise the bar and Meg McKay will jump over it.
Tim Aitken (33) is giving the bottle the boot as he sets his sights on playing for New Zealand at the Homeless World Cup next year.
council on its toes".
After briefly losing momentum, the North East Valley Community Development Project is back on track and quickly making progress, project workers say.
Filming a documentary about human dissection was a challenging, but ultimately life-affirming, experience for those involved.
The prospect of a free health centre being open in central Dunedin by Christmas is being lauded by social agencies.
Literacy Aotearoa Dunedin is encouraging local employers to support its new "Train to Gain" workplace literacy strategy for 2010, to be launched next week.
Dunedin is leading the way in the urgent fight to prevent catastrophic climate change, local organisers of next Saturday's 350 global day of action say.
Young environmentalists from Otago Girls' High School (OGHS) are doing their part to raise local awareness of the global 350 climate-change campaign.
Teamwork was the key to success for the Otago 14th grade girls football team this season.
Feeding toddlers more red meat or iron-fortified milk is now a proven and simple way for parents to stop them developing iron-deficiency anaemia, University of Otago researchers say.
A congregation of more than 150 parishioners and friends gathered at Dunedin South Presbyterian Church on Saturday to launch the centennial celebrations for Musselburgh Presbyterian Church.
There are two weeks left to take part in a Department of Conservation survey about improvements for the Silver Peaks area.
New Zealand's biggest dam could be built in the Lammerlaw Range, northwest of Dunedin.
Making a grieving man choose between his dead wife's ACC compensation and his own hard-earned superannuation is "obscene" and tantamount to theft, Dunedin widower Fin (Findlay) Heads says.
Schools are being given the opportunity to do their bit for the protection of yellow-eyed penguins.