In a test case that could have far-reaching implications, the Liquor Licensing Authority will consider if selling subsidised drinks to students at a private function at a student bar breached the Sale of Liquor Act by promoting the excess consumption of alcohol.
A copyright dispute has not led to the destruction of the Dunedin Santa Parade's Spongebob Squarepants float just yet, as the parade organiser clings to hopes that Spongebob's owners will find their Christmas spirit.
The mysterious felling of 13 native trees in Dunedin's Town Belt has the city council stumped.
The response from the Dunedin public to the vandalism of 13 native trees in the city's Town Belt has been "heartening", city council staff say.
New cycle lanes in the middle of State Highway 1 through central Dunedin are "incredibly dangerous", the Automobile Association says.
The banning of four visitors from the Otago Corrections Facility in the month since a dedicated team started searching visitors and their vehicles, should serve as a warning to others, says the prison's manager.
St John's Dunedin service will get a new ambulance this week thanks to the bequest of a supporter, but a new station in South Dunedin is still some way off.
Plans to refurbish the Dunedin Central Fire Station have been postponed after engineers found major conservation work and earthquake proofing are needed to bring it up to building code standards.
Police issued tickets to six drivers using cellphones during a one-hour operation in central Dunedin yesterday.
The former Dunedin prison may have more heritage value than initially thought, after the Historic Places Trust found the courtyard style of the building was a rarity in New Zealand.
Six southern police officers are stood down or suspended at present pending the outcome of internal police investigations or court proceedings.
It is day 22 and counting for about 20 Wenita employees who have been slugging it out in the smoky dustbowl that was once a large part of the Mount Allan forestry area, and the work is not going away.
A fire in Wenita's Mt Allan forestry block, northwest of Dunedin, is expected to be the most expensive of its kind in the country, the national rural fire authority says.
Dunedin principals will meet the Ministry of Education this week to discuss a replacement service for the Phoenix Centre.
It has little power to do anything about derelict houses, the Dunedin City Council says, after an unoccupied house in Mornington was destroyed in a massive blaze yesterday.
Slow down or risk killing a child. That is the message from Dunedin police after bus drivers contacted them this week concerned about the number of drivers speeding past school buses.
Karitane farmer Murray Hagan is fed up with people crashing into his fence.
Rubber-necking will be welcomed - even encouraged - when the Fire Service burns down a house near Milton tomorrow.
Suggestions by the Justice Ministry on methods of tackling knife crime have been greeted with cynicism and doubt in the South.
Two Dunedin flatmates had an unexpected dinner guest on Monday night when a woman drove through their living-room window.
