Police have warned students and other O-Week revellers that anyone involved in lighting fires will be put before the courts.

The deliberate slashing of 12 tyres on airport shuttle vans has raised suspicion about a taxi war in Dunedin.

A flat of boys has picked up a year's sponsorship and now the University of Otago students are trying to work out how to consume their weekly 2.5kg allocation of Pic's Really Good Peanut Butter.

It was meant to be a leisurely float down a river. But two men needed rescuing overnight after their lilos ran out of deep water and they ended trudging down a riverbed.

A conman jailed for defrauding church-goers of $853k in a Nigerian oil scam has the 'delusional view' the scheme will 'deliver up riches'.

A runaway calf on Dunedin's Southern Motorway sparked a pursuit involving six police cars before officers cornered the beast and "jumped on it".

A 41-year-old Dunedin man was yesterday found guilty on seven of nine charges alleging sexual offending against three women in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

The Dunedin City Council plans to sell surplus land and property over the next two to three years in a move expected to raise about $10 million.

One person was trapped in their vehicle after a two-car crash on the Northern Motorway, about 10km from Dunedin, this afternoon.

It was 2.45am, a week since a double shooting in the big city and Richard Mathias heard gunshots. He didn't expect his 111 call to police would elicit this response.

A Dunedin man who falsified his Facebook profile to contact a teenage boy for sex offending has been jailed for three years.

An evening out with friends went from bad to worse for a 20-year-old Dunedin man.

A service to remember slain Dunedin children Bradley and Ellen Livingstone tomorrow will be a bright and colourful celebration of their lives.

A Dunedin state housing tenant and the SPCA want Housing New Zealand to reconsider its dog policy.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull yesterday compared anti-fluoride campaigners to people who believe they have been abducted by aliens.

Housing New Zealand has rejected claims it has a new plan to evict dogs from state homes.

A Dunedin man who lost control behind the wheel near Golden Bay this morning has been airlifted to hospital.

'I'm a grown woman - I feel discriminated against.' Housing NZ is tightening the leash around allowing dogs in state houses, and tenants are unimpressed.

The family of Edward Livingstone are shocked that the "bloody good bloke" they grew up with shot dead his young children before turning the gun on himself.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend Saturday afternoon's service for the two Dunedin children killed by their father.

The man who shot dead his two children in Dunedin before killing himself is understood to have taken the murder weapon from his former flatmate's gunsafe.

Doing donuts on a park in Dunedin is 'frowned upon' says police who charged an ex-Dunedin boy for cutting up park in his old home town.

Authorities missed many red flags before Bradley and Ellen Livingstone were killed by their father in their Dunedin home.

Ed Livingstone's former wife felt "constantly harassed" and feared for the safety of her family in the months before he killed their two children and took his own life.

As Katharine Webb ran from her house, she heard two shots. Moments later, as she arrived at her neighbour's home, she screamed "he's got a gun and is going to kill my babies".

Nine-year-old Bradley Livingstone was always looking out for his little sister Ellen.

Threatening to kill the children and then commit suicide is a classic tactic of men seeking 'power and control' over their partners, two experts say.