Bruce Munro

We fought for king and country, come and visit us, is the message Montecillo Veterans Home and Hospital residents and staff want to deliver to Prince Charles.

Guy Ryan's plan to promote film-making and positive change just got a $40,000 shot in the arm.

Motel operators are feeling betrayed by the Dunedin Visitors Centre's promotion of student halls of residence to Masters Games participants.

Businesses on the "wrong side of the tracks" are frustrated an ongoing dispute between Dunedin City Council and landowner Doug Hall has kept a portion of the Anzac Ave-Ward St overbridge closed for more than six months.

The Dunedin City Council has nothing in its budget with which to tackle the potential feral cat population problem in North Dunedin.

Security cameras in taxis are helping reduce crime and prosecute offenders, taxi industry spokesman Murray Alcock says.

Alex Leckie Zaharic (11), of Dunedin, is the second best under-12 Scrabble player in the world.

Former Dunedin mayor Peter Chin is mediating an ugly dispute between two factions of what has been labelled a "dysfunctional'' Wingatui Community Hall Society committee.

Dunedin's fittest man has had a good build-up to defending his title in 10 days' time.

Race relations commissioner Joris de Bres is calling on the Dunedin City Council and Otago Regional Council to support Maori seats at council tables if local Maori want them.

The 14th annual Dunedin Santa Parade will happen, Dean Driver says.

Question from the floor: Audience member John Wilson wanted to know if Labour's Clare Curran and National's Joanne Hayes supported the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Question from the floor: Cadidates mostly towed the party line when asked about Maori representation.

Decisions made at this week's Star/Otago Chamber of Commerce Meet the Candidates Forum could shape political futures.

All sixteen candidates standing in Dunedin electorates will take part in Monday's Star/Chamber of Commerce "Meet the Candidates" forum.

Alan Pratley wants to share his Maniototo with visitors from throughout New Zealand and the world.

Anne Marie Parsons, who has been watching Coronation Street for 48 years, says TVNZ's changes to the programme's timeslot amount to "elder abuse''.

Burkes residents are kicking up a stink about the stench in their neighbourhood.

More than 2000 unwanted televisions have been taken to The Warehouse South Dunedin for recycling in the past fortnight.