Laine Priestley

As summer ended, autumn said hello with a scorching Dunner stunner. However, the heat will not be sticking around.

A Kingston woman is calling for all Hilux drivers near and far to grab their keys and join her in setting a world record.

Police swooped on a Dunedin workplace to arrest a man over the assault of an on-duty firefighter during a crash that closed both lanes of a road in Caversham.

Fans of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code will be excited to hear more than 30 copies of the book will be available to buy at the Regent Theatre Book sale.

Getting down with the dogs proved lucky for one North Taieri woman when she spotted a five-leaf clover.

A farmer saved the day by helping a stranded policeman on the Kilmog get his stuck patrol car out of the gravel.

A farmer saved the day by helping a stranded policeman on the Kilmog get his stuck patrol car out of the gravel.

Students are back, O Week is done and dusted, and — for once — Castle St couches remain unburnt.

A driver who returned a breath-alcohol reading more than six times the limit after causing a three-car pileup told Dunedin police he had only drunk three glasses of wine five hours previously.

An argument between flatmates boiled over into a fight with a coffee cup, crowbar and a spiked club before police were called and separated the pair.

An attempted break-in of a South Dunedin home was foiled after the would-be burglar started making a ruckus by jumping up and down on the roof.

For the first time in a very long time, all couches made it through the annual madness of Flo and O-week unburnt and unscathed, making a veteran campus cop proud.

An argument between teenage girls in Dunedin's bus hub escalated into violence with a 15-year-old allegedly kicked in the face.

Introducing Dunedin locals to the pageantry and rich traditions of Pakistani weddings was the goal for one woman at the weekend.

If a $250 fine and a call to mum and dad from the police is one of your goals for O-Week, offer a bouncer a fake ID.

If a $250 ticket and a call to mum and dad from the Dunedin police is a goal for your O-Week, definitely give a club bouncer a fake ID.