General Practitioners at a symposium in Dunedin at the weekend were encouraged to educate themselves on medicinal drug risks because they would not get the whole story from pharmaceutical companies, who worked to increase their market, rather than inform it from a balanced perspective.
CCTV in Dunedin may be online sooner than initially planned.
A recent spike in runaway incidents from Child Youth and Family (CYF) homes in Dunedin has kept police busy and forced CYF to bring in security guards and extra staff to help caregivers deal with errant teenagers.
Two men seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Pine Hill last night were not wearing helmets, police say.
The trauma of losing a home in earthquake-ravaged Christchurch is taking an increasingly emotional toll on residents, some of whom are facing days, or weeks, of living without the basics, coping with contaminated tap water and failed sewerage services.
Convicted fraudster Michael Swann has been ordered to pay $6 million to the Crown and forfeit $4.4 million worth of property bought with money stolen from the Otago District Health Board.
Dunedin's police service must change its structure if it is to reduce crime in the city, says Southern police district commander Superintendent Bob Burns.
Children, parents and teachers affected by Canterbury's big quake are likely to continue seeking assistance with managing trauma for another four to six weeks, a Dunedin-based specialist in emergency and trauma response says.
A man escaped serious injury yesterday when a vehicle driven by a woman in her 70s crashed into him as he sat inside the waiting room of a physiotherapy clinic.
A heartbroken Dunedin student has issued a plea to whoever took her dream engagement ring: please return it.
More groups of young people are going out looking for a fight in the city, and any target, even the unwitting ones, will do, concerned police say.
This is not a good day. Nola Trott summed it up for many Christchurch residents yesterday, as she watched her husband's place of work, and the family's source of income, for 20 years demolished.
Dunedin's police force is tipped to undergo a shake-up which could result in frontline staff from suburban stations being centralised.
The ground in Christchurch is still moving, but residents are nervously looking ahead to rebuild their lives and homes after the powerful natural disaster struck last Saturday.
When disaster strikes, items in everyday use around your house can make you better prepared than having a survival kit, says Dunedin's civil defence manager.
The Corrections Department says it has no idea how long 87 prisoners from Christchurch will stay at the Otago Corrections Facility.
Christchurch residents just want the shaking to stop, as dozens of aftershocks further damage not only the community's fragile emotional state but buildings and infrastructure as well.
Dunedin men who have travelled to Christchurch to join the disaster relief effort are shocked by the damage.
The silence in Christchurch's normally busy square was broken yesterday morning only by the sound of an Iroquois helicopter and the clatter of contractors erecting fences around damaged buildings.
In the northern Christchurch suburb of Brooklands, things are much worse than they look.
