Laine Priestley

A Dunedin teenager has been arrested for shoplifting after he and two friends allegedly pointed a toy gun at a person. 

A Dunedin man dobbed in by his phone told police he had drunk 15 RTDs before crashing while speeding and looking for his phone early today.

Police are trying to to track down a teenager who punched another girl in the head several times after pouring a drink over her in a Dunedin fast-food restaurant yesterday.

An allegedly incoherently drunk Mosgiel woman stumbled next door before assaulting one of her neighbours and kicking in their glass door.

An elderly Dunedin woman’s car had to be craned out after a series of vehicle malfunctions sent it hurtling through a fence and into properties in Opoho yesterday.

A man who discarded a cigarette believed to have started a fire which burned down a Dunedin flat complex says he made a "mistake".

A Dunedin man allegedly fleeing police backed himself into a corner when he turned down a dead end road mid-pursuit.

When police asked a Dunedin man to pour out his bottle of beer, he responded by allegedly throwing it through a second storey window.

A trio of friends are undertaking a perilous journey cross-country after one made a promise to a dying man.

The Lake Hāwea community is "shocked" after a homicide investigation was launched this week, eight months after the death of an Invercargill woman.

The Lake Hāwea community is "shocked" after a homicide investigation was launched eight months after an Invercargill woman was found deceased in the town.

The Dunedin City Council is set to spend almost $350,000 on its campaign against cuts to the new Dunedin hospital.

Four people were caught silver-handed after going on a graffiti spree in central Dunedin, police say. 

Troublesome twins ‘‘fighting’’ in the back of a car caused a mother to veer off and crash into a parked vehicle.