Debbie Porteous

HMAS Diamantina has not seen active duty but, as it is a minehunter, that is probably a good thing.

There is a sense of optimism among Samoans displaced by the recent tsunami

Seventeen Dunedin students have already received convictions for their part in this year's Undie 500 weekend disorder, but the University of Otago is refusing to say if it has disciplined anyone.

A shiver went down Kathy Fuller's spine on Tuesday night when she heard the distant bang of a firework.

The South Dunedin company that owned a pile of cars set alight by sparks from a gas cutter yesterday may face legal action over the plumes of smoke released across the suburb.

A grenade was the most unusual thing they had sucked up their vacuum pipe, contractors cleaning a Mosgiel drain said yesterday.

Two aspects of the new law governing motorists' cellphone use may catch drivers unaware.

A disappointed Dunedin family says they missed out on a moment of great importance because Air New Zealand did not try hard enough to contact the families of Erebus victims.

Barbara Uden, her daughter Sharon Coochey and son Mark Uden were travelling from Temuka to Dunedin Hospital to see their Mrs Uden's mother one sleeting Friday morning in April 2007 when they drove over a rise on Kilmog Hill and straight into the path of a jack-knifing truck and trailer unit.

Police are hoping a weapon used in an vicious attack on an Otago University student yesterday will lead them to the offender.

The Cookathon will not be held tomorrow, or ever again, as the owners of the Captain Cook Tavern acquiesce to the suggestions of the Liquor Licensing Authority.

Two containers filled with donated goods are on their way to tsunami-stricken Samoa and the Dunedin community just keeps on giving.

Clayton Weatherston has lodged an appeal against his murder conviction, but is no longer being represented by Dunedin lawyer Judith Ablett-Kerr QC.

The theft of copper spouting from a Dunedin primary school has left it thousands of dollars out of pocket.