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.

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

A dozen people were arrested and a man smashed an ambulance window, covering a paramedic in glass, at a Dunedin street party tonight.

A surfer will go anywhere to get a good wave. Even on a chilly Dunedin day.

Threats to kill, hit-and-runs and torrents of abuse - Dunedin's streets are becoming a battleground as motorists vent their frustration at parking officers.

ODT reporter Hamish McNeilly has a blunt message for the thief who raided midwife Nicki Cowan's car after she answered an emergency call at 3am.

A new traffic light at a Dunedin intersection - officially turned on just last month - was knocked over yesterday.

Two young men helped another man import thousands of dollars of illegal drugs by opening post boxes in false names, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.

Dunedin City councillor Lee Vandervis' aggression towards colleagues was slammed as unacceptable at a code of conduct hearing yesterday.

Massey University student Virginia Ford was allegedly murdered on Friday night by a 21-year-old man with whom she lived in Palmerston North.

A shopping company is being investigated over revelations some of its door-to-door staff regularly visit beneficiaries in a Dunedin boarding house.

The Notorious Mongrel Mob and Black Power could be coming to a lawn near you.

Dunedin police are refusing to disclose any detail about why a 51-year-old man was shot in Purakaunui last Friday.

Police have begun a "comprehensive" investigation into Friday's shooting in Purakaunui as a 34-year-old woman appeared in court in connection with the incident.

A Go Bus staff member looks from the door of a bus after a collision with a Subaru car on the corner of Rattray and Princes Sts, causing damage to the sides of both vehicles.

The owner of a Dunedin petrol station used his inside knowledge to covertly steal thousands of litres of fuel from petrol retailers.

The Dunedin City Council's group debt has dropped by more than $25 million on the back of stronger results by its companies, new figures show.

The company running Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is promising a "completely different ball game" despite confirming another $1 million loss.

Two members of a defunct Dunedin bowling club have been made bankrupt after failing to return monies wrongfully taken by them.

An out-of-control party of up to 200 youths ended in fights and disorder in a Dunedin park on Saturday night.

A notorious party flat in central Dunedin could find itself dragged into an extension of the city's liquor ban after years of 'unacceptable' behaviour by its residents.

A man who raped a 16-year-old girl in the Dunedin Library car park after befriending her on Facebook has been sentenced to nine years and two months' jail.