Appeals are being made for information regarding a dairy robbery in Dunedin.

A "chubby" thief dropped five-dollar notes all over the floor as he made off on foot after robbing a Dunedin dairy armed with a screwdriver.

The woman's black sedan appeared to have crossed the centre line before the crash.

Wild winds sweeping the country have caused serious disruption to flight schedules, caused power outages and closed roads this evening.

Baby girl bitten in face by family pet in Dunedin yesterday 'progressing favourably' in hospital.

A 44-year-old man who stabbed his former partner to death using a combination of knives and a spade has been denied parole.

Gareth Lawrence Smither stabbed his former partner to death in 1997 using a combination of knives and a spade.

Dunedin resident Hayden Smith is "shocked'' he will have to foot the bill for repairs to a retaining wall damaged by last June's downpour.

A volunteer fireman, paged to attend a car fire, was shocked when he stepped out of his house and realised it was his own vehicle ablaze.

A young woman had to fight her way free from an attempted abduction in Dunedin yesterday afternoon.

A man is understood to have died in a house fire in South Otago this morning.

Dunedin parking officers will trial wearing a video camera from today in an effort to improve their safety.

A United States game developer will use his experience working on some of the world's biggest games to help an ambitious Dunedin studio make global blockbusters.

Dunedin police are investigating a stabbing outside a nightclub in the city last night.

Firefighters in Dunedin are tackling a fire in a unit, which is threatening properties next door.

A 21-year-old student has been critically injured jumping off the roof of a two-storey house at a large Dunedin flat party.

The owner of three Irish wolfhounds that mauled a woman in Dunedin late last year has been sentenced to community work and must pay $8000 reparation.

Car driven by a 26-year-old man causes extensive damage to Spotlight store.

A Dunedin woman who found breast cancer a great motivator to chase her ambition of being a film-maker is working on films in New York and Hollywood.

Southern District Health Board internal memo reveals patients have lashed out over poor quality meals.

Residents in parts of Dunedin are being told to stay indoors due to smoke from a fire at a rubbish tip.

An English consulting firm will receive more than $150,000 for work that includes running "listening sessions'' for the Southern DHB.

A raging solar storm has given way to a glorious array of lights in the skies above the lower South Island.

The collapse of a Castle St balcony earlier this year was due to overloading, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has found.

All voters in Dunedin will be able to vote for all councillors in this year's elections, after the Local Government Commission yesterday scrapped the city's ward system.

Man accused of stabbing and bashing his mother, and then sending a text message with the words "LOL", can now be named.

The founder of Emerson's Brewery has unveiled his latest gear for dispensing his beer - a 1974 Morris Mini 1000, otherwise known as (you guessed it), The Mini Bar.

A man has been charged with murder after the death of a woman in rural Otago.

Todd Treweek has been hit with $1000 fines over two years for blocking his own unused driveway - and council says it won't stop.

Ethical investment has come with a price tag of more than $380,000 for a council fund.