Shawn McAvinue

Babies are suffocating and need their own safe sleeping space, University of Auckland School of Population health programme manager Keith Gell says.

It's dirty work but someone has to do it.

The bowls fraternity is rolling up to Mosgiel to compete for a national title this summer, and the club is at the ready.

Santa battled a blustery headwind in the Dunedin Santa Parade yesterday, but for an Oamaru family his journey was just the tonic they needed.

A community project aimed at giving ''struggling'' families improved access to core health services has opened in Dunedin.

A personal health service record and communications tool for older people won the top prize of the Southern Innovation Challenge in Dunedin yesterday.

The Dunedin to Brighton veteran vehicle run will celebrate its 60th year in January.

Special Olympics golfer Shayne Anderson (left), of Dunedin, runs with Southern District commander Superintendent Andrew Coster in Dunedin yesterday on the final leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run.

The French patrol boat FNS Prairial and its 94 sailors were on show in Dunedin yesterday.

Dunedin police issued 38 tickets to motorists in two and a-half hours in central Dunedin yesterday and Monday.

Santa's Grotto at Cadbury World in Dunedin has been closed after being deemed a fire risk but a new cafe is to open at the Cumberland St site early next year.

Southern District Health Board staff in Southland and Otago pitched ideas to an executive judging panel at Dunedin Hospital yesterday for a share of $25,000 cash to turn their dream of improving health services in the district to a reality.

Ready, teddy, go. The University Book Shop opened the Children's Room in its Dunedin shop with the book launch of The Teddy Bear's Promise.

Dunedin trolley racers Team Zoom Car Wash set a record time at the Auckland Domain last weekend and cleaned up the $10,000 top prize.

The ''affordable'' tickets prices for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 pool matches will have University Oval in Dunedin at capacity, says Mayor Dave Cull.

Retiring to Mosgiel made perfect sense to former Palmerston sheep and beef farmers Jack and Betty Popham, and a house in Goodall St has proved ideal for the pair.

The sirens for the Mosgiel Community Food Bank annual Christmas food bank drive will sound again next month, and organisers are hopeful of the same generosity shown by the community last year.

A Mosgiel toolmaker and manufacturer is breaking the mould by making the mould.

A broken suspension arm on a V8 VK Holden Commodore broke the heart of a Dunedin driver.