Crime

Dunedin is the happiest city in New Zealand, a new survey says.

Poor conditions and a lack of pay parity with the public sector has prompted private medical laboratory workers to strike tomorrow and Friday.

A Dunedin man who thought he was swerving to avoid hitting a child failed spectacularly when he crashed into a retaining wall, killing a duck.

An Otago Peninsula worker was left with a possible broken jaw after confronting a teenager who broke into a tourism business.

Andersons Bay resident Ruth Macintosh and her sun-smart pooch Lacey enjoyed the balmy weather with a return cycle trip to Macandrew Bay along the harbour cycleway yesterday.

The government's refusal to release any details about what beds have been cut from the new Dunedin hospital has been slammed by medical unions.

The weather played its part on Saturday as dozens of pleasure craft headed out to sea with high hopes of catching a tub of blue cod.