''Everyone just ran and glass showered down on to the road.'' Exploding glass caused a shower of fragments onto Dunedin's main street yesterday.

Six overseas drivers have appeared in court over the past 24 hours after a series of crashes that have focused attention on tourist driving.

For the past 15 years, Glen Tily has got on bended knee and proposed marriage to the love of his life, Cathryn Herd.

Deliberately-lit property fires in Dunedin's student quarter could kill someone, a detective investigating the case warns.

'I just couldn't believe it.' Nineteen-year-old Kyle Thom was out with mates early yesterday when he was told his Dunedin flat was on fire.

An annual party at a sponsored student flat has been cancelled after more than 3000 people indicated they would attend.

A stony demeanour has not been enough for Queen Victoria to ward off the latest ill-treatment by Dunedin vandals.

A group of Dunedin flatmates say they picked up 550kg of glass after a party they hosted on their street which attracted 1000 people.

A swastika was painted on a headstone and two other headstones were knocked over in a 'fairly nasty incident' in the Jewish section of a Dunedin cemetery.

Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis now faces two formal complaints despite apologising for an allegedly expletive-laden outburst aimed at senior Dunedin City Council staff.

Two Korean nationals are dead after a horror smash at Blackhead, Dunedin, yesterday.

One person has died and another is in a critical condition following a crash in Dunedin this evening.

Some new software released in Dunedin yesterday will be a breath of fresh air for breast-feeding mums.

"You can't compensate for the loss of a child, but there were so many expenses the Government doesn't seem to understand." Sophie Elliot's father speaks out.

"All I saw was blood," said a horrified neighbour who watched as a man was hit with a golf club and then repeatedly kicked while he lay on the ground yesterday.

No charges will be laid in relation to the death of a man in Otago Corrections Facility four years ago.

Behaviour associated with an inner city Dunedin flat has upset a nearby business owner, who claims racial and sexual taunts have been hurled at her from drunken revellers.

The family of a Dunedin woman who had her head split open with an axe fears her attacker will finish what he started.

Dunedin City Council is to review parking arrangements at Forsyth Barr Stadium, after Wilson Parking's $65 fines were slammed as ''exorbitant and unreasonable".

The theft of his All Black jersey from his old Dunedin high school has surprised former international hooker Tom Willis. "Why would they take mine?"

A 33-year-old Dunedin woman left with just one breast after cancer says she's waited two years for surgery - and will have to wait at least two more.

Lawyers say fines levied by a private car park provider aren't legal, after a Dunedin woman slammed a $65 fee for returning to her car 11mins late.

A woman has reacted to what she has described as an ''unbelievable'' and ''extraordinary'' $65 parking fine she received at a Dunedin car park.

The 29-year-old woman who suffered serious burns outside a Dunedin service station has been transferred to Middlemore Hospital's burns unit.

"I saw a person burning from the waist up". Witnesses have described their horror at seeing a woman catch fire at a Dunedin petrol station yesterday.

A French vacationer scrambled to throw as many valuables as he could out of a burning building yesterday - only to watch the grass around them catch fire.

George Phillips and Mike Neumegen were a couple of Dunedin uni students when their part-time work as freelance web designers led them to hit on a business idea.