An early arrival disrupted wedding plans and saw the ceremony transferred to the Dunedin Hospital chapel.

Two co-educational secondary schools in Dunedin plan to cut teacher numbers as the fall in school-age children starts to affect the secondary sector.

The continuing obstinacy of courts, police and government is thankfully no match for the determination of Joe Karam, writes Sir Bob Jones.

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.

The Dunedin City Council is taking a tougher stance over waiving parking tickets for maternity patients, a move which has upset some Dunedin midwives.

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