Shawn McAvinue

Hardy souls braved bathing in tanks of icy water for at least five minutes for the Heart Stopper Challenge at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday.

A Toitu Otago Settlers Museum provenance report on the leg irons the Dunedin City Council bought for $3900 has been released.

A protest sign - ''legal but lethal, we say no, legal highs all must go''- was the message delivered to local and central government politicians at a Dunedin protest synthetic cannabis on Saturday.

A New Zealand cycle safety panel including Olympic cyclist Alison Shanks will have its first meeting in Wellington on April 15 to make cycling safer on New Zealand roads.

The increase in sexual assaults reported to Dunedin Police is not due to increased offending, Southern District Commander superintendent Andrew Coster says.

A frank conversation about the ''stubbornly persistent'' suicide rate in New Zealand was held in Dunedin last night.

A new swimming pool made the biggest splash at a public meeting in Mosgiel last night on the proposed spending in the Dunedin City Council's draft annual plan.

Australian soprano Rosamund Illing will perform a public concert in Dunedin tomorrow.

A concerned parent picketing outside a store which sells Dunedin synthetic cannabis sparked a heated debate yesterday.

A man was seriously injured in a decommissioned lift at Speight's Brewery in Dunedin yesterday morning, but the circumstances are unclear.

The Dunedin City Council has paid $3900 for the leg irons Mayor Dave Cull pulled from an auction after an investigation he instigated confirmed they could have been used to restrain Maori political prisoners almost 150 years ago.

About 100 people queued for 50 new ''stolen'' couches given away in Dunedin yesterday.

The $63,259 of Government funding for two Otago Salvation Army interns was announced yesterday by Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Jo Goodhew.

A collection of 77 vivid and simple Owen Marshall poems was launched in Dunedin last night.

Calder Stewart Industries Ltd won the supreme award from the Territorial Force Employer Support Council (TFESC) at the Kensington Drill Hall on Wednesday night.

A University of Otago study that films dog walkers with chronic health conditions, starting in Dunedin today, hopes to reveal how exercising a four-legged furry friend affects people's wellbeing.

Risky intersections in Dunedin and Southland are being targeted for safety improvements to reduce death and injury on roads, Associate Transport Minister Michael Woodhouse announced yesterday.

The surf is looking up for stoked wave rider 12-year-old Cameron Johnston and his fellow Big Rock Primary School pupils. The youngsters, who were at Brighton Beach last week, will soon be taking lessons on 12 new soft-top surfboards.