Hamish McNeilly

A crash in a remote part of West Otago has left six people injured, including two in Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries.

A veteran hang-glider pilot was knocked unconscious after landing heavily at Doctors Point, near Dunedin, yesterday afternoon.

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Colin Campbell, received "nasty" emails after he urged Catholics to oppose a new abortion clinic for Invercargill.

The Government faces five possible compensation claims for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.

Iwi that negotiated the right to buy state assets as part of their Treaty settlements will have that right continue under the partial privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

A fire which threatened a home and destroyed 1500ha of mainly scrub, tussock and forestry near Hyde over the weekend, was started by a controlled burn.

The man charged with assessing David Bain's bid for compensation is in Dunedin.

A New Zealander returning from Australia was locked up by Dunedin police last night over $4000 in overdue court fines.

An Invercargill toddler sustained fatal injuries after a chest of drawers and a television set landed on him.

The approval of a four-month, 24-hour-a-day oil drilling operation on Stewart Island has horrified some residents, who say it will destroy a move towards ecotourism spanning two decades.

A neighbour heard screams coming from a South Dunedin property where a 12-year-old girl was allegedly dragged from the street and sexually assaulted.

A Dunedin publican was left shaken after a sharp instrument was held to his neck in an aggravated robbery last night.

Chief Coroner Judge Neil MacLean is urging families to talk to their children about the dangers of inhalants, as he conducts an urgent review on huffing, after an incident which left two Mosgiel teenagers with horrific burns.

Jake Wells does not remember his parents' car being stolen, or the fact it was driven at up to 150kmh before crashing.

The Chief Coroner will conduct an urgent review on huffing, after two Mosgiel teenagers suffered critical injuries following the explosion of an lpg bottle.

The University of Otago says "some international students at the end of their study time" in Dunedin are to blame for the latest round of nuisance fires in the city's student area.

Sixteen people were taken to hospital for decontamination after an early morning incident near Bluff yesterday.

Information sourced in the South has been pivotal in the latest crackdown on the industry producing legal highs, and the world is now tipped to be watching New Zealand's actions.