The Dunedin City Council has agreed to let bars to stay open for the first hour of Anzac Day so Aerosmith fans can have a nightcap after the band's gig at Forsyth Barr Stadium.

A 19-year-old skateboarder who suffered a serious leg injury after skating under a truck has been charged by Dunedin police with careless use of a skateboard.

Pupils at a Dunedin special needs school are beginning to wonder if someone has it in for them.

A Secondary boarding school for senior Muslim boys in South Dunedin is now a certainty, with the sale of a former Roman Catholic school settled, and plans for the site to be developed are well under way.

Soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was all smiles yesterday as she viewed her likeness in a stained glass window at St Paul's Cathedral in Dunedin.

Drunk university students who set couches alight after being turfed out of parties are blaming police for inflaming tensions.

A good Samaritan was punched in the face and had his car stolen after assisting a man to escape a gang fight in Dunedin, police say.

A Dunedin woman is being hailed as a hero after running into a burning City Council flat to pull a 54-year-old man to safety.

More cycle lanes throughout central Dunedin are likely to be widened by the New Zealand Transport Agency, which also plans to seek consultation on more drastic safety improvements in June or July.

Neighbours of a man who lay dead in his South Dunedin home for more than six weeks say he was "reclusive" and would sometimes not answer his door or take calls.

John Burrows Baird, 74, lived alone and, his neighbours said, kept to himself.

Headwear of all sizes, colours and styles stole the show at the official iD Dunedin Fashion Week launch.

Volunteers cleaning Dunedin's beaches for Sea Week were dismayed to find someone had been using the beach as a personal rubbish dump.

A man who sexually assaulted a young woman in a Dunedin park last September was on parole at the time from a lengthy prison sentence for serious sexual offending.

A man is in intensive care at Dunedin Hospital after he was hit by a car near Dipton last night.

Forsyth Barr Stadium is set for its biggest week yet, with more than 50,000 punters expected through the turnstiles this week.

Two students who fell off the roof of the same Dunedin flat within minutes of each other say the incidents are a reminder for students to think before they act.

The man allegedly behind three armed robberies of a Dunedin dairy, which left the owner upset and wanting out of the business, was arrested by police last night.

The annual migration of students back to Dunedin has begun, with the influx of young people providing a boost to local businesses.

A teenager has been remanded on bail and four others also face charges following a police pursuit through Dunedin that went for 46km and reached speeds of up to 135km/h.

A Clyde youth has been warned about his sick behaviour after being convicted on two charges of "branding" teenagers with a heated cigarette lighter.