Accidents

Factors contributing to death and injury from using quad bikes have been specifically identified by University of Otago research.

Two Glenorchy residents will be sent the bills - one expected to be for "thousands" of dollars - for repairs to power lines cut by felled trees over Easter.

The Korean man who drowned when he was swept from rocks while fishing at Cape Saunders on Monday was doing one of the things he loved most.

Authorities are urging home handymen to call in experts rather than attempting DIY work, after the death yesterday of a 42-year-old who was working with wires under his house.

Slow drivers as well as speeding ones will be targeted by police on southern roads this Easter.

A Queenstown woman was taken to Lakes District Hospital with a broken arm after an accident at the Frankton Transfer Station yesterday.

An Alexandra man is awaiting sentence for an incident in which his wife died last September 5.

The Dunedin City Council needs to improve its systems for responding to concerns raised about unsafe buildings being used for accommodation, Otago-Southland region coroner David Crerar, said following a lengthy inquest into the death of a Dunedin man who fell from a first-floor doorway.