Police

Dozens of Dunedin motorists were nabbed for speeding past schools as part of a week-long operation, which has been dubbed a resounding success.

Police are still talking to witnesses after a man was hit and killed by a truck on Auckland's southern motorway yesterday.

Three Spanish tourists spent three hours in Te Anau yesterday picking up human waste after being caught by police for defecating on the grass verge at the end of a residential street.

Police will again enforce a reduction of the national speed tolerance from 10kmh to 4kmh this holiday weekend, in a bid to keep the number of fatal and injury crashes down.

New security at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium helped catch a 19-year-old man allegedly stealing from a portable building just before midnight on Saturday.

A Cromwell man on the run for four days, after escaping from police custody on Sunday, was recaptured yesterday morning when he was found hiding in the floor cavity of a Cromwell home, police said.