Shawn McAvinue

A mourning family is preparing for the possibility the man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash which killed Dunedin man Riley Baker may never serve prison time.

Taieri College pupils competed in the Secondary School Theatresports Otago championship in Dunedin last night.

Homphobic slurs are an "ingrained part of society" but a teenage Dunedin actor is set to ask people to change their perspectives.

A Dunedin-based 4WD club  is celebrating half  a century "in the mud".

A possum eradication programme on  Otago Peninsula has been helped along by a grant.

All a Dunedin  foster dad wants for Father’s Day tomorrow is hugs, and to hunt goats.

After evading police for months, Mosgiel man Robert Laxon was apprehended yesterday after a high-speed pursuit in West Harbour where he crashed a stolen vehicle into a police car, police say.

A spike in chimney fires in East Otago last month has firefighters asking people to get their flues, chimneys and fireplaces checked.

A police investigation has been launched after four suspicious fires in Dunedin on Monday.

A Dunedin businessman fears if sporting and community organisations can be prosecuted under new safety legislation, their governing bodies may drop their support.

An insurance stoush is set to heat up as an East Otago woman, recently confined  in a Malaysian hospital, returns home.

Four small fires were lit on John Wilson Ocean Drive in Dunedin last night.

A 27-year-old man will appear in the Dunedin District Court on Friday after police recovered stolen goods.

Dunedin  artist Craig McIntosh is the first recipient of a new award.

Runners in the Cadbury Marafun leave the start line at the Caledonian Sports Ground in Dunedin yesterday.

A smile from a special kid is all the reward a truck driver needs.