Debbie Porteous

Tourists accounted for just under a third of police-led search and rescue operations in the southern police district in 2009.

As children head back to school this week, Dunedin teen Nic Sinclair and the police have a similar plea for drivers: "Watch out for kids"

If the country music, helicopter rides and trail-bike displays were not enough, those who visited the Brighton Gala yesterday were sure to find a bargain at one of the 120 stalls.

The Dunedin brother-in-law of missing Australian businessman Herman Rockefeller says his family is "struggling" as the search enters its second week.

Fire services were kept busy last night fighting small fires around the region, starting with a kitchen fire in St Kilda, in Dunedin, about 5.35pm.

It has been two years since the Dunedin City Council started playing classical music outside several city centre locations to deter loitering youths, and the first scientific evidence of how effective the boxes are is due out later this year.

Missing out on an allocation of new tourism funding recently has prompted Tourism Dunedin to consider introducing a membership scheme.

Nearly four years after Dunedin city leaders began discussing the installation of closed circuit television security cameras in the central city, there are still none to be seen.

A Dunedin man spent the morning of his 22nd birthday in a police cell yesterday after he allegedly shot a possum from a power pole in Caversham, prompting an armed offenders squad callout.

The extent of the damage and lawlessness that has struck Haiti in the wake of last week's earthquake is no surprise to a Dunedin policeman who spent six weeks in the island nation establishing communications networks for Red Cross following the devastating hurricanes in 2008.

The vision of one of New Zealand's sporting legends has become part of his legacy, as the yacht he built to sail around the world now helps young adults set sail.

A touch of French style pervaded Dunedin at the weekend as about 60 Citroen cars of all ages and styles descended on the city for the Citroen Car Club's annual national rally.

Otago's fire service staff were sent to three times more medical callouts last year than they were six years ago, as medical callouts reach 10% of the region's total yearly callouts.

Surf clubs up and down Dunedin's coast are clean and sparkling, and the rescue gear is all ready to go.

Two stamp albums put together by someone possibly more than 60 years ago are part of a police hunt of a different kind.

The death of a 41-year-old woman from an insulin overdose has highlighted the potential problems of using an incorrect syringe for administering insulin, the Otago-Southland regional coroner says.

Vandals who trashed a South Dunedin football club's storage shed and clubrooms have left club members and officials shocked and disappointed.

"Get married on Tomahawk beach".