Shawn McAvinue

Dunedin IceBreaker Challenge competitors paddle outrigger canoes at the start of a 10km race on Otago Harbour on Saturday.

The "co-ordination and confidence'' of nearly 150 dancers was on show in Dunedin on Queen's Birthday weekend.

Seven people were injured in two separate crashes in Otago this afternoon. 

Firefighters had to forcibly enter a Queenstown home tonight to extinguish a blaze in an oven.

Several hundred people from the South Island Filipino community came together in Dunedin at the weekend for a sports tournament.

A group of southern 4WD enthusiasts are taking advantage of optimum weather conditions as they try to salvage their snow-buried vehicles from Waikaia Bush Rd today.

A 24-year-old woman sustained minor injuries after crashing a car through a fence in western Southland today.

Four people were injured when a truck rolled in eastern Southland late last night. 

Military training aircraft hit speeds of 400kmh over Southern lowlands yesterday giving the pilots a "good ground rush''.

The Armed Offenders Squad was called to a South Dunedin house last night.

Abbotsford School pupils (front from left) Korbyn Couch (6), Carl Salmon (6), Keira Langley (6), Izayah-Kingston Taia (6), (back from left) Jordin Harvey-Roberts (7), Jasmine Hill (8), Maz Te Kanawa (7), Harlem Smaill (7), and Jackson McLennan (7) sing We are Aotearoa in the school hall yesterday to mark the end of New Zealand Music Month today.

Southern district police officers have been told to remain tight-lipped when asked about the nationality of drivers involved in fatal crashes.

The new $25million Emerson's Brewery in Dunedin is on track to open to the public in about five weeks.

A short supply of avocados has some Dunedin residents willing to pay $8 for the scarce fruit.

Police are investigating reports of an aggravated robbery in Dunedin.

The neon horse-and-rider sign on Dunedin's Meridian mall nicknamed Can't Stop has stopped glowing and galloping but it will race again.