Shawn McAvinue

The art community has welcomed a decision to remove a picnic table placed on top of a Mosgiel art sculpture.

The Queen's Birthday Weekend weather in Otago and Southland was mostly clear and calm - the complete opposite of weather at the corresponding long weekend last year.

A ''hideous'' Green Island intersection needs a roundabout, concerned residents say.

Panelbeaters and a tow company were busy ''mopping up'' wreckage in Dunedin yesterday after vehicles slid on black ice.

A multi-vehicle crash in frosty conditions caused delays for motorists after blocking Dunedin's Northern Motorway this morning.

Lives could be saved from drink-driving crashes if police stopped threatening $10,000 fines and supported unlicensed passenger services, the creators of a Dunedin social media campaign say.

Police searched a Dunedin home yesterday for clues relating to the disappearance of a mother who went missing 12 years ago.

Making a South Dunedin street one-way is inconveniencing hundreds of motorists daily for the safety of a sole cyclist, Marlow St resident Trevor McStay says.

The workforce in Otago is getting older and the businesses targeting the growing demographic will prosper.

Dunedin employers are giving young people a chance, Altitude Programme manager Sonya Hill says.

It was a meeting more than two years in the making.

The cat-killing virus at Otago SPCA has gone and adoptions have resumed but rigorous cleaning continues.

A cat found with a slipped collar around its belly, in a ring of rotted flesh, is healing and ready for adoption.

An aviation programme for year 13 pupils is continuing to take off in Mosgiel.

Employers have been asked to kick-start the careers of five Dunedin youths who graduated from the Limited Service Volunteer programme.