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Childbirth is no parking ticket excuse
The Dunedin City Council is taking a tougher stance over waiving parking tickets for maternity patients, a move which has upset some Dunedin midwives.
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Dear a******, don't take it personally
Think your job is thankless? Spare a thought for parking enforcement officers, who routinely receive less-than-complimentary correspondence from Kiwis.
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Troublesome taxi tattletales
Taxi drivers are using security camera footage against each other, resulting in at least one Dunedin operator being fined by police.
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Pressure to replace sex-attack walkway
Auckland Transport is under political pressure to accelerate a roading link in Mangere to replace a walkway with a history of sex attacks.
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School goes from Catholic to Muslim
A former Catholic school in Dunedin is about to become home to a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys.
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Council cafe meetings off the menu
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.
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All Blacks' match a boost for Dunedin
Saturday night's rugby test against the Springboks had many tills ringing red-hot over the weekend.
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Springboks feel heat in southern cold
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.
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Snow-closed roads reopen
The Rimutaka Hill Road and the Desert Road have reopened after snow forced their closure this morning.
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Cold blast hits North Island
Snow was falling in the hills around Wellington this afternoon as a strong southerly blast snow that brought snow down to sea level moved up the country.
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The day the chips bit back
A Dunedin woman having a bite to eat found something extra crunchy and unwelcome at the bottom of her packet of chips.