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There was more crying and screaming than in a One Direction concert, more swinging and acting the goat in the aisles than a Miley Cyrus concert, and more posturing than a Justin Bieber concert.

Armed police swooped on a North Dunedin dairy after a shop assistant was confronted by a masked man yesterday afternoon.

"Nothing about the day was normal,'' Tony Denley said after receiving a police award yesterday for his part in the rescue of 21 Columba College pupils caught in a rip near Purakaunui earlier this y

Every available firefighter in Dunedin was rushed to an auto dismantlers in Burnside this morning where a tyre fire sent thick smoke into the air.

The Dunedin City Council's first female chief executive is pleased to be taking over in tough times.

Thousands of people gathered throughout Otago yesterday to remember the end of World War 1.

Dunedin police are praising the behaviour of a record 10,000 crowd at the Wingatui racecourse for the Melbourne Cup Day yesterday.