As soon as he can walk without crutches, Mosgiel hunter Ken McFarlane says he plans to buy a GPS locator beacon after a hunting trip turned in to a painful four-hour wait while rescuers tried to locate him.
Police are warning of the dangers of internet relationships after a German woman who struck up an online relationship with a Dunedin man was rescued by armed police from a Roslyn house at the weekend.
Dunedin Marine Search and Rescue and police are again alerting people to the danger of a strong rip at Smaills beach after the weekend rescue of two men who spent three and a-half hours in the water.
Police are treating as arson a fire that destroyed the lounge and ceiling of a Fingall St, South Dunedin, house early yesterday.
The Cook-a-thon's future hangs in the balance as the licensee of the Captain Cook Tavern considers his options in the light of advice not to proceed with the popular student promotion.
Dunedin firefighter Craig Still has already experienced the devastating ferocity of Australian bushfires, and tomorrow he returns to Victoria to help fight Australia's worst fires.
A fire that extensively damaged a St Kilda house on Sunday night appears to have been accidental, the fire safety officer investigating the blaze says.
It was hoped a memorial unveiled to Winton's most infamous resident yesterday would bring her and all those whose lives she touched some peace, reconciliation and healing, a crowd attending the...
Police were kept busy in Dunedin on Sunday, with several assaults reported across the city.
A giant, protected tree which fell without warning crushed the car of a senior guide as she gave a tour of Olveston House in Dunedin yesterday.
An attack on a Dunedin police officer during which people stood around and watched has been labelled by police as cowardly and disgusting.
A Dunedin police officer is in hospital with a broken foot after the patrol car in which he was a passenger crashed while pursuing a vehicle through the suburb of Concord early yesterday.
Stop the Stadium president Bev Butler has confirmed the group lodged a letter of appeal to the Environment Court last week seeking to prevent a harbourside arterial route project, without which the proposed Awatea St Stadium would be jeopardised.
Dunedin centenarian Ivy Bolwell has no idea how she made it to 100 - the years just sped by in a blur, she says.
The Otago Community Trust has come up short on a request from the Dunedin City Council for a multimillion-dollar grant to help build Otago Stadium, but it is not clear whether that decision has derailed the project.
A shot was allegedly fired at police officers near Palmerston yesterday as a couple on the run with two young children tried to evade capture.
A 50-year-old man has been charged with murder after his 21-year-old partner was fatally stabbed in Dunedin on Monday.
Rumours circulating Central Otago yesterday that funding had been found to keep the Roxburgh Health Camp open were incorrect, a spokeswoman from the Minister of Social Development's office said.
Police investigating a series of suspicious fires in South Invercargill yesterday say it is too early to say if they were the work of a firebug.
Two southern rescue helicopters are making one of their furthermost journeys into subantarctic waters today to evacuate an injured crew member from a German cruise ship.
