Keeping out the rain
Keeping out the rain
Work is carried out on the Forsyth Barr Stadium roof in Dunedin yesterday to ensure it remains watertight.
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Ready to learn
Ready to learn
After the excitement of O Week, lectures began yesterday morning and thousands of new students got their first experience of university learning.
Struggle for refund upsetting family
Struggle for refund upsetting family
Radio silence from a major international airline has left a Dunedin family struggling under mounting pressure to secure a refund for cancelled flights.
Reports of students behaving not badly
Reports of students behaving not badly
Students are back, O Week is done and dusted, and — for once — Castle St couches remain unburnt.
For the chop
For the chop
Contractors prune trees on a temporarily closed Anzac Ave yesterday.
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Council remains silent about next steps after allegations
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Council remains silent about next steps after allegations
The Dunedin City Council is staying tight-lipped about what steps might follow a $200,000 investigation of its financial and reporting practices.
Car fire quelled
Car fire quelled
Dunedin firefighters check the temperature of a car in Rutherford St, Caversham, after it burst into flames yesterday.
Couch burning consigned to history books
Couch burning consigned to history books
For the first time in a very long time, all couches made it through the annual madness of Flo and O-week unburnt and unscathed, making a veteran campus cop proud.
Attempted break-in foiled after ruckus on roof
Attempted break-in foiled after ruckus on roof
An attempted break-in of a South Dunedin home was foiled after the would-be burglar started making a ruckus by jumping up and down on the roof.
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Injured gull rescued from 'shocking' attack
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Injured gull rescued from 'shocking' attack
Bystanders in Dunedin were forced to intervene after a protected species of native gull was thrown to the ground and its head nearly stomped in, a witness says.
Food from around the globe tempts hundreds
Food from around the globe tempts hundreds
The International Food Festival gave a visiting student her first taste of Omani cuisine.
Rally a magnet for British motoring fans
Rally a magnet for British motoring fans
Dunedin's love affair with British engines was on display at the weekend.
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Community praying for ailing Pope
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Community praying for ailing Pope
Dunedin Catholics are praying for an ailing Pope Francis, the city’s bishop says.
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Councillors to give feedback on FTA projects
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Councillors to give feedback on FTA projects
Otago regional councillors will be involved in the council’s response to at least 15 fast-track projects in the region after a narrow vote.
Delighting in dahlias
Delighting in dahlias
Dunedin Dahlia Circle member Mark Penty admires a flower on display over the weekend at the Dunedin Horticultural Society's summer show.
Popularity of mini-triathlon draws 1000 to Logan Park
Popularity of mini-triathlon draws 1000 to Logan Park
A mini-triathlon for Dunedin’s youngest athletes drew a crowd of about 1000 people to Logan Park yesterday.
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City councillors knock back ‘desperate’ jibe
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City councillors knock back ‘desperate’ jibe
Dunedin's mayor and city councillors have hit back at the suggestion the region’s future lies in Queenstown’s hands.
Flat argument escalates with crowbar, spiked club
Flat argument escalates with crowbar, spiked club
An argument between flatmates boiled over into a fight with a coffee cup, crowbar and a spiked club before police were called and separated the pair.
Funding brings change of tune
Funding brings change of tune
A new tune joined the strains of music that drift down George St on a Saturday morning.
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Relief research can continue
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Relief research can continue
A Dunedin-led genomics research group is "absolutely relieved" the future of their work has been saved thanks to a more than $25 million cash injection.