Former Dunedin city councillor Jeremy Belcher says he was just trying to share information on an alternative energy source when he dropped off parcels of mildly radioactive material to politicians' offices in Dunedin yesterday - sparking a full-scale emergency services response.
The deputy chief of the Royal New Zealand Navy visited Dunedin last week and brought with him the message that the new ship Otago is an "absolutely fantastic" vessel, having made a recent on-board visit in Melbourne.
Owaka residents are in shock following suggestions from psychics that two inhabitants of the small Catlins town may have been involved in the death of another local two years ago.
Three students were arrested yesterday when Dunedin police swooped on a pro-marijuana stall on the University of Otago campus.
The increased cost of grain will compound a marked shopping trend of consumers switching to cheaper products and larger supermarkets, grocery merchants say.
Police across North and Central Otago are warning rural residents to lock away their fuel as thieves become more brazen with the rise in petrol prices.
The southern ambulance sector has welcomed MPs' calls for ambulance services to be restructured but is disappointed changes - if adopted - will not come sooner.
Smoke from a boiler sparked a fire alert at the University of Otago this morning.
The Department of Internal Affairs is investigating the Dunedin screening of an unclassified short film on euthanasia that is banned in Australia.
A Clarks Junction farmer is fed up with rescuing motorists who ignore road signs and end up getting stuck in snowdrifts.
A euthanasia film banned in Australia and shown in Dunedin yesterday could run foul of New Zealand's censorship laws and incur a fine of up to $10,000.
Discontinuing a stand-by ambulance in Dunedin on Friday and Saturday nights will not compromise ambulance services, St John says.
A new youth crime unit set up to tackle Dunedin's hardcore offenders, is targeting 10 of the city's worst young lawbreakers.
A man was left unconscious and bleeding in a central Dunedin gutter after a fight between six men in front of a large crowd, police say.
Black ice and heavy frosts in Dunedin city were contributing factors in three crashes between 8am and 9am, police say.
Police have made good on a promise to crack down on marijuana smokers on the University of Otago campus, arresting a student and issuing two people with trespass notices at a regular cannabis-smoking protest yesterday.
A hot pink man-kini stole the show at this year's Dunedin polar plunge.
Police do not know if a suspected arson that destroyed a house in front of the Mongrel Mob's Invercargill headquarters on Saturday is linked to the gang tension there.
The drivers of two vehicles involved in a fatal crash in St Kilda in January will face charges.
The young woman bitten by a dog in Dunedin on Tuesday night received her injuries after getting into the car in which the dog, and its owner, were sitting, police said.
