A holocaust survivor and one of the last remaining Jews to be saved by Oskar Schindler hopes her story can help prevent the horrors she witnessed happening again.

Thousands of dollars of synthetic cannabis was stolen in an aggravated robbery of a North Dunedin dairy last week, prompting concerns over potential health risks to users, police say.

A North Dunedin dairy was robbed by two knife-wielding offenders early this morning.

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.

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.

It appears the 54-year-old man saved from his burning Dunedin flat on Monday night may have been rescued twice, by different people.

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.

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.

An autistic man was told ''go home to China'' in a racist verbal attack in central Dunedin this week.

Three men on a lunchtime surf off the coast of Dunedin saved a group of schoolgirls being swept away in a rip.

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.