Ross Kennedy considers himself lucky after managing to leave Thailand at the weekend on a spur of the moment decision.
More than 100 people from Otago and Southland were charged with cultivating cannabis in the past year as part of a national cannabis crime operation.
A motorist who backed out of a driveway on to Dunedin's Kaikorai Valley Rd and swiftly accelerated back in when he noticed a checkpoint 20m down the road was among 23 drivers processed for drink-driving in the first weekend of a major pre-Christmas drink-driving operation in Dunedin.
More than a third of people sentenced to community work in New Zealand last year failed to complete it - a figure which has at least one critic concerned there is something wrong with the system.
A Dunedin teenager injured in a 5m fall down a cliff at Smaills beach, Dunedin, last night had to be carried on a stretcher about 50m across jagged rocks and 200m along the beach to a waiting ambulance.
On June 28, 2008, a man Dunedin Constables Hamish Buchanan and Brent Christie had gone to arrest cut his own throat with a carving knife in front of them.
Residents are concerned speeding and dangerous drivers are returning to the streets of South Dunedin after a quiet period following the death of an 11-year-old boy in January this year.
Dunedin police are investigating a fire that threatened houses in the suburb of Corstorphine about 1.50pm yesterday.
An explosion in a paint-mixing machine that blew out windows and shook a large Dunedin building on Friday was a lesson to people who worked with paint, a fire safety officer says.
The new Minister of Defence says he is still not clear on all the specific problems facing the six undelivered Project Protector ships, but an initial briefing suggests they are significant.
A 23-year-old student on work experience with the Department of Conservation spent an unplanned night in a backcountry hut near Macraes after becoming disoriented on Wednesday within 200m of a road.
After issuing more than 1000 speeding tickets in two weeks, Dunedin police say they are disturbed so many Dunedin people are still speeding despite knowing the carnage it can cause.
Dunedin police, with help from the Dunedin public, have caught nine alleged burglars in two nights this week.
The $90 million HMNZS Otago, already a year overdue, is believed to be battling a serious weight issue which may jeopardise future operations and is likely to further delay the ship's delivery.
A good Samaritan not only fears for his health after going to the aid of a dying colleague near Oamaru last month, but is also angry ACC will not pay for him to find out if he has been infected as a result of his good deed.
Taieri teenager Jacob Ferguson crawled out from under a 110kg motorcycle, freed himself from an electric fence and dragged himself to get help with his leg broken in three places after a trail bike accident.
Three Dunedin men are likely to face prosecution after fishery officers located and seized two bags containing 149 shucked paua hidden in rocks at Tomahawk beach in Dunedin on Monday.
Police have issued around 700 speeding tickets since starting a speeding operation in Dunedin city a week ago.
A former Dunedin man has been provisionally appointed district commander of the Southern police district.
Brian Robertson might not have been here to tell the story had a German bullet fired at his father's chest 91 years ago landed millimetres either way.