Les Lang is nursing burns to his hands and a colleague is recovering from smoke inhalation, after an explosion ripped through a Ravensbourne fibreglass factory yesterday.
It seems the streets around the student quarter are no longer the only domain for the traditional student couch blaze.
Arguing in a public place that "the environmental movement should use violence to advance its agenda", or that "Maori seats should be abolished in Parliament", is likely to end badly for most people.
Construction of the Southern District Health Board's $530,000 dental hub at Macandrew Intermediate has begun, leaving some in South Dunedin wondering if the Forbury-Macandrew schools merger is "a fait accompli, or a gross waste of taxpayer money".
Two days ago, the Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Mosgiel was nothing more than a 417sq m concrete pad on a plot in Factory Rd.
The board of trustees at Forbury School has broken its silence over the Ministry of Education's proposal to merge it with Macandrew Intermediate.
The growing level of street violence in Dunedin has prompted Channel 9 to screen a live panel discussion with some of the city's leaders on the issue next week.
Three Otago primary schools that are part of a pilot programme aimed at accelerating maths learning are already proving the project delivers significant improvements for struggling pupils - and quickly.
Education Minister Anne Tolley is declining to comment further on the South Dunedin schools review now that it has reached its final consultation stage.
When you are passionate about your work, it no longer seems like work.
Less than a month after it was closed, Dunedin's High Street School might be reopened - this time with pupils and teachers from Te Kura Kaupapa o Otepoti.
When it came down to choosing whether to continue his medical degree at the University of Otago or take up a $100,000-per-year scholarship to study languages at Cambridge University in England, the choice was easy for Will Coleman.
"Half of our future leaders appear to be idiots. The other half appear to be sheep." Those were the words of Willowbank station officer Grant Clarkson yesterday.
Shunya Yago has been somewhat distracted of late. Since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, his thoughts have been on the plight of his family, particularly his grandparents, who live in Miyagi prefecture near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The number of submissions to the Ministry of Education's second round of consultation on the South Dunedin schools review is significantly lower than the total received in the first round.
Dunedin will almost certainly gain an extra Rugby World Cup match following the decision to move fixtures from Christchurch.
As with all 27 other Gang Shows held in Dunedin since 1956, the cast of this year's production are again keeping tight-lipped about the show's theme.
Otago Anniversary Day is once again providing the annual dose of confusion about what will be open, and what will not.
What should I be? These days, it is a $200,000 question.
Proposed plans for stage two of the Caversham Valley Safety Improvement Project appear to have polarised Dunedin residents, if an informal public meeting at Calton Hill School last night is anything to go by.