A Dunedin man who started his career at Hillside claims there is something fishy about KiwiRail's tendering of 300 wagons to a Chinese company and has launched his own investigation into the deal.
Police are investigating a burglary at the Green Island Rugby Football Club and a report young people were seen acting suspiciously on the clubhouse roof an hour earlier.
Concerns are held for the safety of a 32-year-old Dunedin man who is believed to have disconnected his drip while in a ward at Dunedin Hospital and walked out with a cannula still in his arm.
Dunedin police are investigating a series of threatening telephone calls to Dunedin residents, including an elderly woman who was extremely upset when told her family members would be hurt, Senior Sergeant Kelvin Lloyd says.
Jeans, chaps, checked shirts, cowboy hats and the aroma of mud set the scene in central Dunedin on Saturday evening during the 2012 International Rodeo at the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
The theft of between as many as 50 hay bales from the West Harbour Pony Club at Sawyers Bay is being investigated by Port Chalmers police.
Television chef Richard Till and Hocken Collections librarian Sharon Dell sort through the dozen boxes of material collected by Mr Till's father, the late musician Maurice Till, which were donated to the library yesterday.
Redundant Hillside staff are among workers being encouraged to make submissions to a national inquiry into the state of New Zealand manufacturing.
Kiwirail takes full responsibility for its partial closure of Hillside Engineering Workshops and the redundancy of 90 workers, board of directors chairman John Spencer says.
Job losses at the New Zealand Defence Force army base in Dunedin are being considered as part of a South Island battalion merger.
Kiwirail's partial closure of its Hillside Engineering Workshops and the redundancy of 90 workers is the best outcome of a bad situation, chief executive Jim Quinn says.
Amid the bleak outlook for most Hillside staff there is a glimmer of hope in the expansion of Bradken's Dunedin operation.
Ex-servicemen from throughout Otago are meeting in Dunedin today as members of the newly formed Otago branch of the New Zealand Malaya Veterans' Association.
Designers for the 2013 iD Dunedin Fashion Show have been confirmed, and ticket sales begin tomorrow.
Dunedin surf breaks are to feature in the latest video of New Zealand's best surfers and their favourite locations, which will be available to millions through the internet.
An 18-year-old exchange student from Asia has been left with facial injuries and bruising after an attack by three men in South Dunedin.
A wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in the Queens Gardens will lead Armistice Day and Remembrance Day commemorations in Dunedin tomorrow.
Working to relocate peripatus habitat within the Caversham Valley yesterday are (from left) resident and ecological adviser Dave Randle, Opus International team leader for land and water Roger MacGibbon, Downer project manager Mark Woodward and Opus International ecologist Trevor Connolly.
Just two of KiwiRail's Dunedin workers will be forced to take redundancy, as nine other infrastructure and engineering employees are voluntarily leaving the state-owned enterprise, the Otago Daily Times has been told.
Dear John letters between lovers are generally displeasing to the recipient. Parking enforcement officers are familiar with a slightly different, but equally disagreeable version of correspondence.
