Hamish McNeilly

Off-duty lifeguards saved two visiting teenage girls caught in a rip off St Clair Beach on Saturday.

A reward offer for help solving the cold case of a missing Dunedin woman has expired.

Former Dunedin mayor Peter Chin may undergo bypass surgery after he was revived mid-air by Air New Zealand flight attendants.

A ''cowardly and disgraceful'' attack on two police officers in Dunedin's Octagon shows why police support the earlier closure of city bars, a senior officer says.

A globally successful games creator is returning to New Zealand to set up a Dunedin studio.

Bandidos gang members were arrested during a raid of six Dunedin properties yesterday.

A surge in the supply of methamphetamine is being pushed by gangs on a ''willing market'' in the South, police say.

A police officer was assaulted and a patrol car window smashed during an incident in Dunedin, police say.

Firefighters have slammed the ''idiots'' who threw fireworks from a vehicle, sparking a fire and a mass evacuation in Queenstown.

Hamish McNeilly gets the dead skin nibbled off his feet while on holiday in Thailand.

Five Dunedin teens were rescued after their vehicle became stuck in a bog in a remote part of Otago.

A teenage woman has back injuries after a quad bike rolled in South Otago.

Christmas came early for a Dunedin student reunited with her stolen hard drive containing two years of research.

More than 400 films have been shot in New Zealand over the past 75 years - from Rewi's Last Stand (1939) to Z for Zachariah.

A man left with burnt hands after a botched drug-making operation has been warned a prison term is likely if he reoffends.

Jordan Housiaux wants her life back.

A fire which destroyed a house and damaged another was started by a Dunedin man trying to inhale cannabis over an lpg heater, the Dunedin District Court has been told.