Laine Priestley

South Dunedin residents were trying to keep smiles on their faces yesterday after dawn revealed widespread flooding and damage to their homes and possessions.

A hidden cache of a Dunedin family’s history has been discovered under a house’s floorboards. Now the treasure-finder is on the hunt for the portrait’s descendants.

The smell of wet dog was in the air of Halfway Bush yesterday after a police dog spent 40 minutes diligently tracking down a group of teenagers.

An alleged burglar jumped out of a second storey window before leading police on a foot chase through north Dunedin properties.

Over 350 additional bus trips to and from Port Chalmers are to be added in a bid to ease pressure from cruise ship passengers using the service.

The horrifying future many in Lebanon and Syria see for themselves is a choice between various ways of dying, a Syrian-Dunedin man says.

When tragedy strikes, police are the ones who run towards the danger and sometimes that means making the ultimate sacrifice, a senior Dunedin officer says.

A determined Winton family dog on a mission got stuck under a water tank for almost an hour after digging himself in this afternoon.

Bringing back the sound of birds to Outram Glen is the goal of three locals drumming up support for a local trapping group.