Hamish McNeilly

An 8-year-old girl suffered extensive arm injuries following a dog attack in a Dunedin cul-de-sac last night.

You have read the comics, watched the cartoons, bought the toy characters, traded the cards, played the video game and seen the movie - so what's left?Dress up as your favourite fictional character, that's what.

Scammers are targeting the internet trading website TradeMe by copying listed items and marketing them on different websites, duping one unsuspecting woman of $750.

National Party leader John Key appears to be winning the battle of cyberspace, with almost three times the number of supporters on the same social networking site as Prime Minister Helen Clark.

"This is my YouTube, this is my Google, this is my half-billion-dollar idea," said Deloshan Nawarajan when introducing his fledgling company, OceanMarkets Ltd at a business awards evening this week.

The Department of Internal Affairs is not ruling out prosecuting the gaming machine society which paid nearly $500,000 to its Queenstown-based trustee, in a case which has shocked and embarrassed the industry.

A quince grinch has stripped two fruit-laden trees in the Dunedin Botanic Garden, leaving staff feeling bitter about the theft.

Dunedin International Airport, the only airport in the country which has sole Air New Zealand and Pacific Blue transtasman services, stands to gain from a proposed alliance between the two airlines, Air New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe says.

Distasters are coming. That is the prediction from Insurance Council of New Zealand chief executive Chris Ryan, who said the number of disasters caused by storms, floods, tornadoes and snowstorms would rise.

Police raided and seized a Dunedin gang house yesterday - one of only two seizures of its kind in the country - and are warning other gangs they could be next.

David Bain, in his quest for compensation, runs the risk of being reconvicted in the court of public opinion, a law professor says.

The unidentified person who sparked a bogus rescue operation off the Otago coast last month may have cost the taxpayer $24,000, released information reveals.