Shawn McAvinue

A police officer attended an incident after a woman was hit by a bus in Dunedin yesterday.

A man has been killed in a bulldozer crash on a West Otago farm today.

A consent to build a 35-room apartment block in Central Dunedin has been approved but a neighbour is determined to continue to fight against the planned build.

Severe gales for coastal parts of Southland, Clutha and Dunedin are forecast for late this afternoon or evening, MetService says.

Thieves are targeting Dunedin homes in daylight, including making off with a boat.

The pedestrian involved in a hit-and-run in central Dunedin has not come forward, but police have found a 15-year-old boy believed to be involved in the incident.

Winter finally showed up in Otago yesterday after an unusually extended and balmy autumn.

A Dunedin couple are saving a "mess'' to give the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra a new home.

SPCA Otago has been inundated with kittens, unseasonably warm weather in Dunedin having extended cats' typical breeding season.

A ‘‘passion for fashion'' helped raise more than $8000 for the Otago Community Hospice in Dunedin last night.

The iSport Foundation has chosen Kaikorai Valley College to receive donated sports gear including a set of left-handed golf clubs, racquets and baseball and cricket gear.

People are swarming to a Dunedin restaurant to eat locusts.

A Dunedin man with a disease which restricts his movement is certain the high-pitched scream of a long-life smoke alarm will alert him if a fire is burning in his state home.

When I order a grasshopper at a bar, I expect to be served a cocktail. But consider this a warning, because next time you are in Dunedin, you might find your order has a bit more kick.

Police are seeking three people in relation to a recent stabbing in Dunedin.

It's elementary.

More foreign tourists are fishing without a licence in Otago, Fish and Game says.

Buckling up is a no-brainer, police say.