Timothy Brown

Police are investigating further claims of harassment against a Dunedin woman who feels she has been made the face of an ''anti-student'' campaign.

Dunedin residents who responded to an Otago Daily Times poll have overwhelmingly panned the prospect of rates rises above and beyond what the Dunedin City Council has already mooted.

Changes may be in store for Otago's police stations after police announced a nationwide review of station safety.

The birthday celebrations of a Dunedin man who police say was almost four times over the drink-driving limit came to an abrupt halt when he ploughed into a motel fence yesterday morning.

Police are investigating after a Dunedin woman who featured on a television segment about student behaviour in the city complained about harassment stemming from the show.

More police have been assigned to tackle domestic violence, child abuse and adult sexual assault, under a restructuring of Otago coastal police.

Frontline police are being bolstered in Mosgiel in a changed approach described as ''more street than station''.

Victim Support has been helping a Wanaka Night'n Day staff member cope with the serious assault which took place in the store early on Saturday.

Police are releasing few details about the death of Invercargill man Barry Ross McCorkindale (56), who was found last week at his Invercargill house with serious head injuries.

The Dunedin City Council is taking a tougher stand against some increasingly ''obnoxious and belligerent'' students following a record number of noise complaints.

An ongoing dispute with a North Otago farmer who says he is at his wit's end has landed the Otago Regional Council in the poo - literally.

The University of Otago has committed more than $200 million to future-proofing its Dunedin campus.

A pensioner has been warned for dousing his neighbour with a garden hose after tempers flared over a central Dunedin driveway.

A man who eluded police, led them on a car chase and sparked an armed manhunt was arrested last night.

A Dunedin man who was listed as missing after Nepal's earthquake has emerged alive after walking to safety through a quake-ravaged valley.

Four students were arrested and a stereo seized from a drunken party in Stafford St yesterday.