Hamish McNeilly

Robots invaded Dunedin where they played football, located search and rescue victims and even strutted their stuff on the dance floor on Saturday.

Be quiet. Be friendly. Be a good sport. So says the poster on chess etiquette at the Otago Chess Club, but when it comes to the Otago junior chess championships winning is still king.

A website asking people to tell of their infidelities has revealed surprising information, its Dunedin creator says.

Breast was best at the Wall Street mall in Dunedin yesterday, when 31 mothers and their babies took part in the national breast-feeding event the Big Latch On.

Former Dunedin man Chris Kelley was a fresh-faced police cadet in Wellington when the Wahine sank in 1968, and more than 40 years later - as the Commander of the Tongan police force - he is dealing firsthand with another major maritime disaster.

Tongans in New Zealand are rallying in support after an interisland ferry sank off the coast of Tonga with 40 people, including many women and children, feared dead.

Television production company NHNZ has bought the former Dunedin Convention Centre, which it plans to redevelop into its new international headquarters.

The head of an anti-drug lobby group has condemned the "foolish actions" of her younger brother, convicted last week of running a sophisticated cannabis-growing operation from his Dunedin house.

Known as the "smiling Maori", Johnny Wallace is still grinning, despite losing his job last week and spending the last three days campaigning to get it back.

A 14-year-old boy has complained to the Dunedin City Council after he was verbally trespassed for "hanging out" at the Wall Street mall.

Dunedin city councillors are to meet today to discuss possible changes to the inner-city parking regime after a "slightly tetchy" meeting with business representatives last night.

After lengthy delays, HMNZS Otago is expected to be commissioned in Dunedin by the end of the year, Rear-admiral Tony Parr, of the Royal New Zealand Navy, says.

The legalisation of euthanasia in New Zealand is a case of not if but when, right-to-die campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke said in Dunedin yesterday.

Dunedin social services agencies are reporting an increase in the number of people receiving disconnection notices as families struggle to pay rising power bills during the colder winter months.

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