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.

Saturday's match was always going to be an uphill battle but no one expected wheels to come off a Dunedin premier club rugby team quite so spectacularly.

An unbelievably one-sided Dunedin premier rugby game was ended in mercy yesterday. One of NZ's greatest whistle-blowers suspects it's a world first.

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.

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

A Dunedin mother is "heartbroken'' after a memorial to her son who died last year was trashed and some of his ashes stolen.

SPCA Otago posted an SOS to its 7000 Facebook followers late this afternoon after it was told by an elderly couple they could not remember where they parked their car.

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.

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.

The concert where a balcony collapsed injuring 18 people should never have been held at student flats, Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.

A young Dunedin man who threatened to send pictures of his 16-year-old former girlfriend naked to her mother has been prosecuted.

A young Dunedin family has been left homeless after fire destroyed their rented Ravensbourne property yesterday.

Dunedin's small Myanmar community is buzzing after one of their own went from working at an Otago freezing works to being sworn in as second vice-president.

Health Minister bows to pressure to taste test controversial new meals at Dunedin Hospital.

Bunnings management has "put its foot down'' and forced its Dunedin staff to gift the store's defibrillator to a community group.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is calling on the Government to rethink freedom camping legislation, after a season in which large crowds overwhelmed sites and stretched facilities.

Dunedin Police would like to hear from anyone who saw a car narrowly avoid colliding with a bus before crashing into a parked car in Glenleith.