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

''I try to pick up the broken glass every Sunday morning, but it was just too bad.'' 1000 revellers helped plaster a Dunedin street in glass - to residents' disgust.

A pregnant woman was taken to Dunedin Hospital after a street race involving up to three cars ended in a collision yesterday.

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.

Horse racing trainer Steve Anderton has died in hospital after a freak accident at the family stables near Mosgiel 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 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.

Severe thunderstorms may hit Dunedin, North Otago and Clutha this afternoon bringing heavy rain and hail as large as 20mm to some areas, MetService warns.

Stunned staff and some 100 swimmers watched in disbelief as a fun-loving sea lion waddled through reception and cafe to "swim laps" in a public pool yesterday.

Swimmers were this afternoon evacuated from a public pool after a sea lion "waddled through" reception and entered the water.

An investigation into the deaths of an elderly couple whose bodies were found in their Dunedin home has been completed.

Police investigating the unexplained deaths of an elderly couple who were found dead yesterday say the deaths are not suspicious.

Police are investigating after an elderly Dunedin couple was found dead in their home this morning.

Former Dunedin mayor Peter Chin is recovering in hospital after being revived by an Air New Zealand crew shortly after takeoff.