Chris Morris

Business owner Jim Lloyd has seen a lot from behind the counter of his South Dunedin antiques store.

Like an often-repeated New Year's resolution, plans to revitalise the South Dunedin shopping district are back on the agenda. Chris Morris reports in the first of a new Otago Daily Times series, Suburban Issues.

Emergency services searching for two missing men after a sizeable chunk of ice shelf collapsed at Fox Glacier yesterday afternoon have recovered a body.

It is 500 years old, written in Latin and kept under lock and key most of the time.

What Dunedin woman Karen Hunter lacked in driving qualifications, she made up for in speed.

It was open season on the open water as the crews of a flotilla of home-made rafts did battle at Karitane on New Year's Eve.

With an international crew of 50 on board, the seismic mapping vessel Nordic Explorer slipped quietly out of Dunedin late yesterday under grey and threatening clouds.

Dunedin firefighters will soon be rushing to save the day in their first new fire truck in 10 years.

The same "brazen" thief is suspected of quietly cutting their way into two tents in Dunedin camping grounds and stealing items while the occupants slept, police say.

The Dunedin City Council has agreed to buy out the lease of a popular Octagon restaurant to make way for the city's $45.4 million Town Hall redevelopment, but the bill remains a closely guarded secret.

Christmas has been cancelled at some Dunedin workplaces, as business owners scrap office parties and end-of-year bonuses in an effort to weather the economic storm.

More retailers have been confirmed for Dunedin's Wall Street development, but it will be a few weeks yet before they are named, project manager Dave McKenzie says.

The lights are going out on one of Dunedin's festive traditions, as time takes its toll on Waldronville's famous street of Christmas lights.

Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin says he feels vindicated after ending 12 years as chairman of the Chinese Garden Trust.

Carisbrook Stadium Trust chairman Malcolm Farry is feeling buoyant after a $1.9 million surge in private sector funding for Otago Stadium in the past week.

Christmas may still be a week away, but Santa's footsteps have already been heard on at least one Dunedin roof.