From wildlife to heritage to chocolate, Peter Feeney finds plenty of reasons to extend your visit to Dunedin.

Motat's clever use of te reo has seen it receive top honours at the ServiceIQ 2015 New Zealand Museum Awards in Dunedin.

Dunedin police are investigating after a Palmerston baby was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

A truck has jack-knifed near Dunedin this morning closing city-bound lanes on State Highway 1.

A man who sparked an armed manhunt and a police car chase in Dunedin was captured last night.

A fugitive who went on the run in Dunedin has been found after eluding police for much of the day.

Police have taken action against some of their own after failing to protect Katherine Webb and her children, but those involved have kept their jobs.

A top policeman choked back tears yesterday as he recounted Dunedin police's significant failures in their handling of Edward Livingstone.

Police failed to protect Katherine Webb and her children, Bradley and Ellen Livingstone, an inquest heard today.

Changes have been made to the way Southern police handled cases of family violence after the deaths of Bradley and Ellen Livingstone.

The police prosecutor in charge of Edward Livingstone's second protection order breach has conceded mistakes might have been made in the way police handled the case.

A harrowing statement from Katharine Webb to police has revealed the horrific minutes leading up to her children's deaths.

The duplicity of Edward Livingstone has emerged during the coroner's inquest into the death of himself and his children.

WATCH: Daredevils have taken on the steepest street in the world, riding drift trikes down Dunedin's Baldwin St.

The dead oarfish washed up at Aramoana last week has disappeared and marine experts are warning against eating its 3m-long fillets.

An engine issue grounded a Christchurch-bound flight at Dunedin International Airport yesterday, but Air NZ has kept tight lipped about the problems.

A bizarre, self-amputating, vertical swimming, serpent-like marine specimen has washed up on the salt marsh at Aramoana in Dunedin.

Watch: a highlights package of the Ultimate Waterman even at Pinnacle surf break off Potato Point at Purakaunui.

A truck driver has been praised after deliberately steering his out-of-control truck and trailer into a bank as it hurtled down a steep bank.

Dunedin Venues Management Ltd has apologised for a ticketing mix-up which resulted in an Alexandra couple barely being able to see Rod Stewart.

A castle, gardens and penguins give the student town of Dunedin a more refined air, finds Sam Wicks.

Tuatara have hatched in the wild in the South Island for possibly the first time in several hundred years, experts say.

An 88-year-old man called up for jury service said he would probably have slept through most of the trial.

With the full name of Abergavenny Sunny, and a pedigree status as a seal tabby Birman, Sunny the cat is a creature of some dignity and grace.

Organisers are staying tight-lipped on the future of the Hyde St keg party after a St John vehicle was attacked, a dozen party-goers were arrested and dozens more required medical attention at the event.

Six Dunedin students are lucky to be alive after their car was torn apart in a horrific crash.

Some 4000 tickets were sold for the Hyde St keg party, an annual student blow-out known for its excessive alcohol consumption.