The South Today

Coastal areas in Vietnam were assessing the damage from Typhoon Kalmaegi on Friday, following its deadly passage through the Philippines where it killed at least 188 people.

Customs officers have seized an estimated 35 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of up to $12.25 million, from a shipping container at Port Chalmers.

The final evaluation for the government's military-style boot camps has found it is too small to provide any meaningful data and its implementation was rushed.

A man and woman have been charged after a North Dunedin supermarket was targeted about a dozen times, police say.

Wellington lawyer Sonja Cooper acted for the abused woman dying of cancer and says the system is "abhorrent".

Former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming, who pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material, went to school in Dunedin and trained as a teacher in the city.