Shawn McAvinue

The blanket ticketing of parked cars in a ''quiet and skinny'' suburban street by Dunedin City Council yesterday was ''disgusting,'' Lookout Point resident Pat Reid says.

Jumping off the new wharf at the Burkes St Leonards Boating Club in Dunedin are (from nearest to camera) Jake Palmer (7), George Campbell (8) and Sophie Palmer (11) as Reuben Campbell (12) contemplates his leap.

A newly relocated and renovated 99-year-old East Taieri villa has been shown off to its previous owners.

Dunedin provides a better lifestyle than Kazakstan, even though life in the central Asian country is nothing like the Borat movie portrayal, student Alevtina Redden says.

A $30 million government initiative will make about 20 Dunedin state houses with driveways for children's play.

A neutering caravan is in Dunedin for the first time on the last stop of a national tour.

Babies are suffocating and need their own safe sleeping space, University of Auckland School of Population health programme manager Keith Gell says.

It's dirty work but someone has to do it.

The bowls fraternity is rolling up to Mosgiel to compete for a national title this summer, and the club is at the ready.

Santa battled a blustery headwind in the Dunedin Santa Parade yesterday, but for an Oamaru family his journey was just the tonic they needed.

A community project aimed at giving ''struggling'' families improved access to core health services has opened in Dunedin.

A personal health service record and communications tool for older people won the top prize of the Southern Innovation Challenge in Dunedin yesterday.

The Dunedin to Brighton veteran vehicle run will celebrate its 60th year in January.

Special Olympics golfer Shayne Anderson (left), of Dunedin, runs with Southern District commander Superintendent Andrew Coster in Dunedin yesterday on the final leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run.

The French patrol boat FNS Prairial and its 94 sailors were on show in Dunedin yesterday.

Dunedin police issued 38 tickets to motorists in two and a-half hours in central Dunedin yesterday and Monday.

Santa's Grotto at Cadbury World in Dunedin has been closed after being deemed a fire risk but a new cafe is to open at the Cumberland St site early next year.

Southern District Health Board staff in Southland and Otago pitched ideas to an executive judging panel at Dunedin Hospital yesterday for a share of $25,000 cash to turn their dream of improving health services in the district to a reality.