A group of golfers playing through the mist at the St Clair Golf Club on Saturday morning came up against an unusual hazard.

A Dunedin cleaner beat his boss to death with a hammer because she had complained about his conduct at work, the Crown says.

An 11-year-old boy has been rushed to Dunedin hospital after falling almost four metres from a rope swing.

This will be a good weekend to check out the museum or cuddle up with a book as heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast for parts of the country.

A bus driver and the blind woman he knocked over have shared an unlikely embrace outside court.

We will find you and we will kill you - that is the message the Otago Regional Council is set to issue today to Bennett's wallabies that enter Otago.

A ChinesePhD student attacked his wife and threatened to send her back to China all because she did not refuel his car, a court has heard.

A knife-wielding man who paraded around in public with his shirt off, challenging people to fight him, has been jailed for nearly two years.

The Dunedin City Council faces a potentially protracted legal battle as New Zealand's supermarket giants join forces to fight the city's local alcohol policy.

An international student has avoided conviction for starting a nuisance fire, despite admitting lighting the blaze.

Psychology student was seen drinking from a bottle of wine while driving at speeds before crashing into three cars.

Burglars abseiled into a Dunedin building at the weekend, leaving a trail of destruction before stealing art supplies.

Four Queenstown men are lucky to be alive after their kayaks overturned and they were swept out to sea off the Otago coast.

A Dunedin youth advocate has hit out at Child, Youth and Family after young offenders have had to spend time in police cells.

Police were called to reports of disorder following a large student party in the Dunedin Botanic Garden yesterday.

In an "unprecedented" move, nurses from Timaru were drafted in to work at Dunedin Hospital for two days this week because of pressure on the hospital.

Two women have been arrested after the armed offenders squad blocked off part of Maitland St in Dunedin this afternoon.

An Auckland teen faces a raft of violence charges after he allegedly assaulted a university warden on Dunedin's infamous Castle St.

Law Society says any 19-year-old with no previous convictions would not have been jailed on the same charges.

On an insider tour of Dunedin's hidden treasures, Eleanor Ainge Roy discovers the other Edinburgh deserves a second glance.

COMMENT: I think we have a winner for Lawyer of the Year. The award goes to the wizard who side-stepped jail time for Nikolas Delegat.

The sentence given to Nikolas Delegat for assaulting a policewoman has been widely condemned.

A father and daughter pleaded guilty to incest when they appeared in the Dunedin District Court this afternoon.

A fisherman on a burning boat grounded the vessel on rocks before leaping to safety near Dunedin yesterday afternoon.

The police officer who was knocked unconscious by a rich-lister's son in an alcohol-fuelled attack was also attacked by a young man five years ago.

The rich-lister's son who punched a female police officer unconscious has today apologised for his "bad decision in the heat of the moment".

The female police officer punched in the face by the son of a rich-lister who escaped a jail sentence is still being helped by colleagues on her road back to work, 18 months after the attack.

Two men have been caught smuggling meth into Dunedin on a flight from the North Island.

An ambulance officer is being treated for moderate injuries after an ambulance hit ice and slid off the road on the Southern Motorway near Dunedin tonight.

A woman says she was left shaking by the "over-the-top" response from Dunedin police after she and her partner were rebuked for opening a drink mid-flight.