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.

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.

Saturday night's rugby test against the Springboks had many tills ringing red-hot over the weekend.

Dunedin turned up the heaters in the Forsyth Barr Stadium last night as the All Blacks beat the Springboks 21-11 in front of a sellout crowd.