Debbie Porteous

The actions of some Dunedin second-hand dealers could come under scrutiny from the police after a sting by Work and Income agents uncovered a possible beneficiary scam.

The Brighton coast resembled a giant fluffy milkshake yesterday, with the beach and foreshore blanketed in a thick milky foam.

For most of his life Reuben Jones' heart condition will probably be invisible to others.

A ute driven by an elderly man collided with a car, which then shunted a parked ute into a house in Ravelston St, Dunedin, yesterday.

A policewoman was allegedly attacked by a woman she was arresting in Tomahawk Rd in Dunedin yesterday.

The back of Doug Lovell's bright blue volunteer's sweatshirt should probably read: "I survived the Regent 24-Hour book sale ... for 30 years".

Residents and businesses on Dukes Rd, near Mosgiel, say they have "had a gutsful" of boy racers damaging and littering the roadside and their properties and keeping them awake.

A group at Sawyers Bay on Saturday were faced with a big job - catching 10,000 fish.

Lyndon Adams went to work one Monday about a month ago, and has not been home since. A logging accident in a farm forestry block near Balclutha that day left him with 10 fractures in his spine and four titanium plates and 29 screws in his pelvis.

Secondary pupils can hold their after-ball parties in Dunedin as long as they are not on licensed premises and they follow a strict set of guidelines, authorities say.

A review of the safety of lpg heaters, recommended by Otago Southland regional coroner David Crerar last year, will be completed in the next few months.

People involved with a Dunedin centre for disruptive school pupils fully supported its continuation, despite the Government suggesting their feedback was behind its closure.

Being given three faulty anklet units during his six-week home detention sentence has concerned one Dunedin man.

The University of Otago will consider ways to limit the number of liquor outlets around the campus as part of an action plan to cut student binge-drinking.

Changing the student binge-drinking culture is not going to be as simple as limiting people's access to alcohol, says the author of a survey of University of Otago students.

Some actions that might avoid future Undie 500 disorder have been outlined in a University of Otago study.

It is full steam ahead with plans for a reunion in Dunedin to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of the original HMNZS Otago, despite the delayed arrival of the ship's new namesake.