Police have released the name of a man whose body was found next to gas canisters in Dunedin's Botanic Gardens yesterday, but are yet to establish whether he is the latest victim of "huffing".

About 30 motorists in Dunedin and Oamaru had engine problems after filling their vehicles with contaminated petrol.

Police are trying to establish whether the death of a man whose body was found in Dunedin's Botanic Gardens today is the latest in a spate of "huffing" deaths.

Shedding staff cost the Dunedin City Council more than $600,000 in the last year, and more than half the money went to two senior managers.

A hunter drank puddle water to slake his thirst and snuggled up to his pig dogs to stay warm after getting lost in a rugged area south of Dunedin for more than 24 hours.

A warning has been issued after two underground tattooists in Dunedin were shut down in the past month for operating out of substandard premises.

Think your job is thankless? Spare a thought for parking enforcement officers, who routinely receive less-than-complimentary correspondence from Kiwis.

Taxi drivers are using security camera footage against each other, resulting in at least one Dunedin operator being fined by police.

Auckland Transport is under political pressure to accelerate a roading link in Mangere to replace a walkway with a history of sex attacks.

A former Catholic school in Dunedin is about to become home to a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys.

Police are looking for a man who forced a woman to the ground in Dunedin's town belt yesterday morning in what they believe was a sexually motivated attack.

Council staff in Dunedin appear to have changed their ways since a culture of ratepayer-funded cafe meetings and expensive staff dinners was revealed two years ago.