An investigation is under way after a grader driver died near Lumsden yesterday.
The National Party's clean sweep of polling booths around the University of Otago appears to be a ''significant shift'' in the student voting base, political lecturer Dr Bryce Edwards says.
The bride wore all white but her vote was all blue.
They stride out - men barefoot and the women in towering heels - to line up on stage under the glare of the lights.
A ''commercial enterprise'' of party drugs sourced over the internet and destined for the Dunedin market has been seized, police say.
Victims of sexual abuse should be allowed to have details of their case made publicly available if they wish, Justice Minister Judith Collins says.
A Dunedin driver took on a police handheld laser camera - and lost.
He has little to say, but this canine's actions speak louder than words could anyway.
Every day, a Dunedin-based locomotive driver has a near miss with a motorist.
A 90-year-old war veteran targeted by ''gutless'' teenage burglars says at their age he was fighting for his country.
Police have slammed ''disgraceful'' driving behaviour near a high-risk Dunedin intersection yesterday.
A sole-charge police officer says he was not scared when an offender armed with a steel bar confronted him at an isolated rural property.
A cancer charity fundraiser that, for some, had mutated into a viral drinking game, has shocked Southern participants.
Witnesses led police to two youths alleged to have fled the scene of a suspicious fire which destroyed two Palmerston homes yesterday.
Dunedin police are cracking down on dodgy driving, after a double-digit increase in central-city crashes.
Police are working to interview six or seven people, all believed to be aged 15 and 16 years, following a vicious assault in Dunedin that was caught on video.
Emergency services were called, about 5.50pm, to a a head-on smash on State Highway 1, just north of the Dunedin suburb of Pine Hill, last night.
Police decided not to prosecute an officer involved in an incident with off-duty officers, it has been revealed.
A man who died in a South Otago house fire had been commemorating a deceased family member in the hours before his death.
The heartbroken fiancee of a man killed in a South Otago house fire is preparing to take his body home.