Commissioners Robert and Janine Donaldson launched the Salvation Army's Red Shield Appeal in Dunedin on Friday.
If the warm waters of Otago Therapeutic Pool closed, members of an aqua aerobics classes would be ''deeply saddened''.
A female probation officer was left shaken after an attack in Dunedin by a teenage man, the Department of Corrections says.
Local Maori say they have no plans to reduce bag limits or limit access for recreational fishing in Otago Harbour.
A wind gust uprooted a mature tree in North Dunedin yesterday and put it in the path of traffic.
A Clutha farmhouse was ''practically destroyed'' by fire yesterday.
The runt of a litter has become a big celebrity in Mosgiel.
The search for missing Dunedin hunter Murray Edge will continue today after heavy rain made it too dangerous to continue yesterday, police say.
After a year of ''unexpected events'' which forced the closure of the Middlemarch Bowling Club, the organisation has been given nearly $1500 from the Strath Taieri Community Board to maintain its mower.
The Dunedin City Council is seeking ideas on how to develop reserve land in Mosgiel.
Brains, brawn and beauty helped University of Otago medical student Deborah Lambie win the 2015 Miss World New Zealand crown.
A 52-year-old Kaikorai man who had suffered burns and dog bites was taken to Dunedin Hospital yesterday.
A 5-year-old girl was flown to Dunedin Hospital with head trauma today after falling from a tree in Central Otago.
A 21-year-old Dunedin student running the Routeburn Track made it out safely today after being delayed by the weather, police say.
A man with a knife was arrested on Saturday night after Dunedin's armed offenders squad and the police negotiating team were deployed to the Waverley house he was inside, police say.
War veteran Dave Hanlin has attended Dunedin's Anzac Day ceremonies as far back as he can remember.
A woman walks among the firefighters who extinguished a fire in her Glenleith, Dunedin, house yesterday.
Strath Taieri teenager Arthur Peat left the family farm to make the ultimate sacrifice on Gallipoli Peninsula.
Two women were taken to Dunedin Hospital with minor injuries after two vehicles collided on Dunedin's Southern Motorway, near Kinmont Park, about 2.30pm yesterday.
Puppy farms and dog fighting were topics Labour's animal welfare spokesman Trevor Mallard sank his teeth into at the SPCA Otago in Dunedin yesterday.