Hamish McNeilly

The closure of a Dunedin film-processing store has left customers in the dark.

The historic Dunedin Prison was sold for $20,000, it has been revealed.

Icy conditions in Dunedin kept emergency services busy yesterday morning, and a wayward cow resulted in a truck driver being flown to Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries.

A drive-by shooting of a Mosgiel house bus could have had deadly consequences, police say.

The beleaguered Otago Rugby Football Union could be liable to pay back millions in pokie grants if its relationship with three Auckland bars and a gaming trust is proven unlawful.

A major Internal Affairs investigation is alleged to have been "put on the backburner" after United Future leader Peter Dunne inquired over a tardy pokie grant for annual Christmas parades in his electorate.

Martin Legge tried to clean up the gambling industry from the inside .But now outside the industry and offside with it too, the Levin-based man's determination to clean-up the poker machine sector remains the same.

A Dunedin dognapping ended with the dramatic return of a battered, bloody and traumatised puppy, whose owner believes could have been the innocent victim of an organised dogfight.

Expect to see increased police patrols, as officers target a zero road toll this Queens Birthday weekend.

A stick-wielding man man held up a fish and chip shop in Dunedin last night.

Jason Frandi, after his arrest for the abduction of a young Oamaru woman 12 years ago, told police he had intended taking the victim to a forestry block to rape her and then kill himself.

The Office of the Auditor-general is looking at the trust embroiled in an alleged pokies funding scandal involving the Otago Rugby Football Union.

Grants earmarked for the amateur rugby game were used by the Otago Rugby Football Union to pay creditors, New Zealand Rugby Union appointed change manager Jeremy Curragh has confirmed.

An intoxicated teenager allegedly stabbed a bouncer in the neck with a screwdriver after the youth was refused entry into a Dunedin nightclub.

Alcohol thieves - dubbed the "Robbing Hoods" - have stolen thousands of dollars of rare Dunedin whisky, potentially lethal for inexperienced drinkers, police say.