The Drug Intravenous Organisation (better known as Divo) is a nonprofit organisation working under the Ministry of Health and is one of about 20 specialist outlets in New Zealand selling new needles and syringes to drug users as part of a national needle exchange programme.
A 19-year-old Oamaru man will appear in the Dunedin District Court this morning charged with aggravated robbery in relation to the robbery at knifepoint of an Oamaru dairy last night.
Work to replace a faulty Macandrew Bay water main will begin on Monday.
Despite the winding down of operations at Hillside Engineering Workshops, its eclectic support group lives on.
A last-minute change in Parliament will have the Alcohol Reform Bill put through its third and final reading next month, bringing forward likely requirements for Dunedin bar owners to pay higher fees.
An Environment Court judge will hear next month whether quarrying should continue on the Saddle Hill ridge line, before determining whether the practice is legal.
A policy enabling rates remission for voluntarily protected land has been amended by the Dunedin City Council's finance, strategy and development committee.
Changes to the way liquor licensing is dealt with in Dunedin are likely to be confirmed next year when the Alcohol Reform Bill goes through its third and final reading in Parliament.
Student fashion fit for a queen will be on display to thousands at the Dunedin Railway Station as part of the 2013 iD Dunedin Fashion Show in March.
Dunedin City Council chief executive Paul Orders is writing to the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) asking it to urgently address the issue of safety for cyclists on Dunedin's one-way state highway system.
The serious assault of a 20-year-old Dunedin man by a group of youths is being investigated by Dunedin police.
A 45-year-old South Dunedin man is due to appear in the Dunedin District Court charged in relation to a series of milk thefts throughout the suburb.
A Waitati couple are celebrating the end of a decade-long fight to secure their domestic water supply, made possible yesterday by a decision of the Dunedin City Council's infrastructure services committee.
Inspired by Cinderella, an Otago Polytechnic student has designed an award-winning dessert which is serving as her meal ticket to a three-day Australasian master class and competition in Melbourne.
Ponies at the West Harbour Pony Club in Sawyers Bay will not go hungry, thanks to the generosity of strangers.
Decreased Ministry of Education funding for school transport in the greater Waikouaiti coastal area will not affect the level of service to residents, but some will face higher bus fares.
Motorists face less risk on Otago and Southland state highway roads than elsewhere in the country, a study of the 11,000km national network shows.
Thieves are targeting Dunedin construction sites, police say, and builders need to be wary of leaving valuable items in half-built homes.
"A million and one questions" are being put to KiwiRail by Hillside workers wanting to know conditions of their redundancy, exactly when they will be expected to finish and how outstanding work can be completed in time, union members say.
A 21-year-old unemployed Dunedin man charged following the stabbing of a young mother is being held in custody before a scheduled court appearance on Friday.
