A coroner's recommendation to make life jackets compulsory, after the drowning death of a Dunedin man just metres from safety, may be difficult to enforce, the Otago Regional Council says.
Jumping barracoutas, flying Hector's dolphins and even a humpback whale kept the sea off Taiaroa Head busy yesterday morning.
A Dunedin city troubled by repressed childhood pain and a collective lack of self-esteem was invaded by 210 plain-clothes psychiatrists this week. Hiding the dark recesses of our psyche from their relentless gaze was essential. Fortunately, David Loughrey was keeping an eye on the visitors, and uncovered a weakness.
Victims of a Dunedin lawyer who yesterday pleaded guilty to Serious Fraud Office charges following a $2.8 million Ponzi scheme can now start the process of trying to get their money back.
The rental vehicle industry needs to be part of a plan to curb poor - sometimes fatal - driving by tourists, a coroner says, following his investigation into the death of a Dunedin man.
Thirty jobs are set to be cut at Donaghys' Dunedin factory, leaving workers ''stunned'', and their union representative fuming at claims New Zealand has a ''rock star economy''.
Houses, empty sections and parkland are among 149 parcels of property across Dunedin being considered for sale, as the city council looks to add $10 million to its coffers.
Dunedin is set to save $7 million after better economic times meant the city council was able to renegotiate a $75 million loan.
A Dunedin taxi company has spent close to $500,000 on a booking system that moves its technology from telephone calls to an automated system that uses text messages and computer technology.
They sat neatly on varnished wooden pews, 250 smartly dressed women wearing fashionable leather boots and holding elegantly curved wine glasses.
ANZ bank workers say their lifestyles could be badly affected if a move by the bank to make their start and finish times variable goes ahead.
A Mosgiel man who discovered after his retirement he had lost more than $100,000 in a $2.8 million Ponzi scheme run by a Dunedin lawyer says the betrayal by a man he trusted felt like ''being stabbed in the back''.
Rory Ferguson was still in bed on Monday morning when he got a call from the New Zealand Rugby League.
An injured motorcyclist was waiting to be evacuated from a hut at Breast Hill near Hawea last night, after three men were injured in an off-road motorcycle crash.
It was school holiday time in Dunedin this week, and the young seeped from the city's pores, streamed into town and clogged the streets with their youth. Some hung out in the Octagon, while others considered the nature of nonexistence and chaos theory. In his column, David Loughrey took a hard look at their behaviour.
A group of students who have worked to make a house once named Dunedin's worst student flat more liveable are set to move on from their project, not long after they managed to get solar panels added to the privately-owned property.
A Dunedin campaign highlighting the dangers of a single punch is about to cross the Tasman, after impressing a Brisbane man who lost his son to teenage violence.
Thousands upon thousands of spam emails land in the in-boxes of Dunedin workers every day of the week. But who thinks of the poor souls whose lonely job it is to send them? David Loughrey does. Today, with a little help from Google Maps, he imagines the empty lives of the emailers who spammed him recently.
The head of a union for health professionals has weighed into a debate sparked by the resignation of a Dunedin Hospital clinical leader.
Dunedin's Queen Mary Maternity Hospital has a ''rigorous and high security protocol'', although it was not clear last night whether security would be reviewed following the alleged kidnapping of a baby in Auckland.
