Laine Priestley

A Dunedin man who parked his trailer in the middle of the street ended his night pepper sprayed and in custody.

A Dunedin man has collected a raft of charges after allegedly giving his brother's details when pulled over for drink driving.

An intoxicated Dunedin man allegedly threatened a neighbour and smashed their window before driving off with his children in the car.

Dunedin museums are among organisations targeted in a wave of fake bomb threats which have caused disruption across the country.

A woman who died in a house fire on Boxing Day was remembered by her son as a woman with a passion for helping and for her community.

A teen doing burnouts on a busy Oamaru street drove into trouble when he hit some train tracks and crashed into a parked car.

Dunedin museums were targeted in a wave of fake bomb threats which caused disruption across the country.

Blindness never stopped one Dunedin woman from being able to read, and now she wants New Zealanders to think about the magic of braille.

While South Islanders enjoyed their summer breaks, it was "business as usual" for emergency helicopter medics in Otago.

Despite numerous serious road crashes, the South was fortunate to have posted a fatality-free holiday period, a senior southern police officer says.

One hundred and fifty years years ago, people from the United Kingdom bound for Dunedin had a dramatic New Year’s Day when the ship they had been travelling on sank off the coast of The Catlins.

Four people were injured, two seriously, after a crash on State Highway 83 near Omarama yesterday afternoon.

In the aftermath of an earthquake that caused widespread damage and deaths in Japan, one New Zealand woman recounted her experience of being in the country when the quake hit.