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.
The Privy Council will hold a preliminary hearing in London on December 8 to consider a petition requesting it fully acquit David Bain of the 1994 killings of his immediate family in Dunedin.
David Bain will know by early next month if his bid for acquittal on the five counts of murder he faces for the deaths of his immediate family in Dunedin in 1994 will be heard by the Privy Council.
The traditional nationwide two minutes' silence at 11am may have become a memory for many but Armistice Day was honoured by hundreds of people in Otago yesterday.
Some are trying to give Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day more significance this year. It will be hard to miss the large march through central Dunedin tomorrow, but what will you be doing at 11am on Tuesday? Debbie Porteous reports.
"You march because you want to remember what they did, remember how brave they were, because it is so important that you want to keep it alive," says 16-year-old Catherine Campbell.
Dunedin police reported no snow-related incidents on the city's roads after a light dusting of snow this morning.
Gumboots will not be the must-have item for fashionistas at this year's Melbourne Cup races at Wingatui if Sue Smaill has anything to do with it.
A Stoneburn farmer says he is grateful to neighbours and community who have rallied around him after a fire destroyed his home, only months after he bought the farm.
A fire that destroyed a van parked in a car park at the St Clair esplanade in Dunedin yesterday is being treated as arson.
