That 10 mobility scooter riders have been killed, and 19 seriously injured, in New Zealand in the past five years is ''frightening'' and such deaths and injuries need to stop, Dunedin City Council road safety adviser Deborah Palmer says.
A marquee village for Bledisloe Cup revellers will be erected when the lower Octagon is closed on Friday.
Electricity spot prices are "volatile" and the distribution costs across sparsely populated areas and ''difficult terrain'' in Otago and Southland pushes the retail price in many areas past the national average, Electricity Authority chief executive Carl Hansen says.
People climbing on the Moran Building in the Octagon are causing serious problems which the the building owner is working hard to circumvent, Cutlers commercial property manager Richard Thompson said yesterday.
The Pink Ribbon Street Appeal today and tomorrow aims to raise funds to support women withbreast cancer, boost awareness and fund research into targeted treatments. Reporter Shawn McAvinue talks to St Kilda woman Leanne Smith, who is facing her own struggle.
The Bledisloe Cup arrived in Dunedin yesterday and will be part of the silverware served up at a breakfast for 10 Otago Daily Times readers.
A Dunedin service is weaving people with mental health issues back into the workforce.
A Mosgiel mum who ''eats, sleeps and breathes soccer'' was unable to collect her women's coach of the year award at Football South's recent prizegiving because she was - you guessed it - out of town coaching.
A new government internet video service connecting deaf people in Otago and Southland to a sign language interpreter in Auckland will help with the ''terrible'' lack of interpreters in the South, Otago Deaf Children Association president Alan Hughes says.
A Dunedin business man has agreed to stop selling synthetic cannabis while his interim retail licence is being considered.
More than 200 descendants of a pioneering Chinese trader celebrated their family connection in Dunedin in the weekend.
Nearly two-thirds of the 325,488 calls by vulnerable New Zealand youth seeking help went unanswered and more than 10% of the calls were made from Otago.
Warming up before a game at the Pacific Trust Otago netball day at the Edgar Centre in Dunedin yesterday are (from left) Louina Siola'a (7), Semisi Taungapeau (9), Akosita Siola'a (10) and Keili Amoto (15).
A rescued blind cattle dog will see out her final years in Dunedin.
Electricity demand has decreased in Otago and Southland while residential electricity prices have been rising.
A South Dunedin synthetic cannabis shop is a magnet for anti-social behaviour, Supporting Families in Mental Illness manager Jackie McKenzie says.
A South Dunedin mental health organisation is hosting a forum to lobby the Dunedin City Council to stop a newly opened nearby store from selling synthetic cannabis so close to the service.
A synthetic cannabis retailer says some people should be banned from buying the product.
A 17-year-old Dunedin rugby player remains in a coma but bleeding on his brain has stopped as team-mates, staff and pupils hope for a full recovery.
Brighton residents have been given a week to discuss the alternative proposed sites for a 2degrees cellphone tower in Scroggs Hill Rd.
