Shawn McAvinue

Two Australian brothers snowboarding in Queenstown were rescued from a gully near the Remarkables skifield late last night.

A Dunedin couple are offering a $1000 reward for the ''irreplaceable'' items stolen from their Northeast Valley villa.

A wheelie-bin arsonist left mounds of melted plastic and a Dunedin suburb ''saturated'' with police patrols yesterday morning.

More babies were taken from mothers and put in Government care in the South Island last year despite a North Island area having bigger population.

The eviction date given to Dunedin pensioner Robyn Swale for feeding ducks outside her Dunedin City Council flat lapsed yesterday, but she is yet to receive official word about what will happen.

Synthetic cannabis addicts should smoke cannabis as it is the ''lesser of two evils'', says Dunedin Community Alcohol and Drug Services clinician Mark Greco.

A door-to-door truck shop is targeting Dunedin beneficiaries to spend their weekly food money to service debt, Dunedin Budget Advisory Services adviser Charlotte Wallace says.

About 60 ''flat cats'' came a step closer to domestic bliss at a clinic in Dunedin yesterday for the cats of tertiary students.

Fields of fabric daffodils and 1000 little bears wearing orange sleeveless jackets have landed in Dunedin for distribution across the province.

Dis-establishing 35 positions in 11 regional Work and Income offices is a ''kick in the teeth for staff,'' Public Service Association (PSA) national secretary Brenda Pilott says.

A mayor from another dimension met the Dunedin mayor at the opening of the Dunedin Cadbury Carnival on Saturday.

When I entered the Carisbrook garage sale on Saturday, it was my first time at the stadium.

Korean War veterans, their families and members of the Korean community gathered in Dunedin on Saturday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.

A mobility scooter ''went up like a bomb'' in Mosgiel on Friday night.

Angela Hodges blamed herself when her newborn son Max struggled to breast-feed.

A Dunedin competition to support breast-feeding mums has not been well supported, health promotion adviser Toni Paterson says.

Protesters are ''optimistic'' after a visit from 2degrees Auckland executives yesterday to discuss the placement of a cellphone tower at Brighton.

Southern police staff are trialling three new trouser styles.

The Otago SPCA has reaped the benefits of Grace Gardner's selfless approach to her 11th birthday party.

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum director Linda Wigley is leaving Dunedin to become director of Voyager New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland.