Police are seeking witnesses to the pedestrian fatality at the intersection of Gt King and Hanover Sts in Dunedin on Monday.
Normally staunch Vietnam veteran Winata (Jimmy) Opai struggled with his emotions yesterday as he was returned to his wheelchair in front of his fellow war veterans as dawn broke over Dunedin's Queens Gardens.
Southern police are slightly less happy in their work than their northern counterparts, according to a new survey, but dissatisfaction is nothing new and southern police officers do not think the results would be much different in most work places.
Police erect shields around the body of a 64-year-old Dunedin woman who died after an accident involving a truck and trailer unit at the intersection of Hanover and Gt King Sts, in Dunedin, yesterday.
Frosts and temperatures below 4degC across Otago are forecast for Anzac Day, but it will not keep veterans from attending.
About 150 servicemen's headstones will shine as new for people heading to Andersons Bay Cemetery today to pay their respects.
After years of devotion to organising Anzac posy-making sessions, ageing J-Force veterans and their partners are seeking younger people to take over the task.
The passenger of a 4WD vehicle being driven through Balclutha yesterday probably averted further disaster when he took control of the steering wheel after the driver lost consciousness.
The last, and biggest, cruise ship of the season bypassed Dunedin yesterday, a parting blow for local businesses which had otherwise enjoyed a bumper season.
Dunedin police are hoping for well-behaved revellers at the Hyde St keg party again this year.
Brodie Carvalho is going all the way to the top - the top of Auckland's Sky Tower, that is; and he will probably get there faster than most. The 28-year-old special Olympian from Mosgiel will...
A "troubled youth" who showed a pocket-knife to a teacher escorting him from an Otago Boys High School classroom yesterday should never have been sent back to mainstream education, rector Clive Rennie says.
The number of grievous assaults in rural Otago increased 122.5% to 89 last year, prompting the area's police head to label the mainly alcohol-fuelled crimes a ‘‘blight on our towns''.
Users of party pills containing benzylpiperazine have been stocking up on the cut-price tablets - some spending up to $500 - before the introduction of today's new law which makes them illegal.
Bluestone blocks from a historic Dunedin wall due to be demolished and replaced will be sold as salvage by an insurance company.
Three young people caught tagging St Paul's Cathedral in the Octagon, in Dunedin, yesterday left a church staff member sprawled on the ground and a bus driver angry after initial attempts to capture them failed.
All submissions on a pre-trial application to change the venue for David Bain's retrial were suppressed by a judge in a High Court hearing at Christchurch yesterday.
Dunedin police are concerned others may have been assaulted by a group of teens who are alleged to have punched and stamped on a man's head during an unprovoked attack in central Dunedin on Friday night.
Embers from two large traction engines making their way over the Devils Staircase may have caused a series of scrub fires alongside Lake Wakatipu near Wye Creek last night, firefighters say.
Two staff at a Mosgiel school required medical treatment after they were overwhelmed by fumes from a parcel sent to the school by New Zealand Post.