Child Youth and Family says it is working to prevent a repeat of the situation where a 14-year-old girl ran away from its care 43 times, but has stopped short of conducting an investigation into how that was allowed to happen.
A Dunedin mother says she is outraged after a lit smokebomb firework was thrown into the car where she and her two pre-schoolers were sitting.
Child Youth and Family admits it should have acted sooner in the case of a Dunedin girl who ran away from a CYF home 43 times in three and a-half months.
Police say the fault for any crashes or injuries that followed three pursuits in the South within 48 hours sits squarely at the door of the drivers and motorcyclist they pursued.
The size and use of reserve military forces in New Zealand will be reviewed as part of several "value-for-money initiatives" outlined in the Government's Defence white paper.
The first woman to head the Southern police district's prosecutions team has now been officially appointed to the position.
Fireworks are on sale from today, prompting a reminder from emergency services about public safety.
Mr Wilson unveils the plaque. Photos by Jane Dawber People in South Dunedin will soon have faster access to an ambulance with the opening of St John's new Hillside Station on Saturday. ...
Dave Seque will turn off his radio, ditch his equipment and say goodbye to the Dunedin Fire Service when he steps down as Dunedin's fire chief next month.
Vandals who smashed dozens of windows at two South Dunedin schools during the weekend are the target of a police investigation.
At least 30 Dunedin police staff will be relocated from four suburban police stations to Dunedin Central under a proposal that will result in the biggest restructuring of the Dunedin police force in years.
Their close call is a warning all families should heed, a Dunedin family says, after a children's globe sitting on a window sill caught fire.
The 39-year-old Dunedin motorcyclist killed in a crash near Balclutha on Monday was named by police yesterday as Lynne Margaret Donald.
As New Zealand's future as the location for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit films teeters in the balance, Debbie Porteous and Naeem Alvi look at what the film industry is worth to Otago and ask local film and tourism figures how the films' departure would affect the region.
Moves to list remote Old Dunstan Rd in any district plans would be opposed, according to a prominent landowner on the historic Central Otago road that was last week added to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust's national register.
The mysterious return of a stolen diamond engagement ring has delighted its owner, who had given up hope of seeing it again.
His face has practically been rebuilt after he was kicked by a horse last Wednesday, but come the weekend Dunedin horseman Mark Isaacs will be at the mini show in Clyde, right where he wants to be.
As winter exits and Otago begins to dry out, rural firefighters are keeping an eye on the weather.
A large rabbit took over Sergeant Dave Scott's office after being rescued from a busy central Dunedin street on Sunday night.
Dunedin civil defence and emergency management experts' ability to respond to a tsunami will be put to the test tomorrow as part of a national exercise.
