The Dunedin City Council is taking a tougher stance over waiving parking tickets for maternity patients, a move which has upset some Dunedin midwives.

Think your job is thankless? Spare a thought for parking enforcement officers, who routinely receive less-than-complimentary correspondence from Kiwis.

Taxi drivers are using security camera footage against each other, resulting in at least one Dunedin operator being fined by police.

Auckland Transport is under political pressure to accelerate a roading link in Mangere to replace a walkway with a history of sex attacks.

A former Catholic school in Dunedin is about to become home to a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys.

Police are looking for a man who forced a woman to the ground in Dunedin's town belt yesterday morning in what they believe was a sexually motivated attack.

Saturday night's rugby test against the Springboks had many tills ringing red-hot over the weekend.

Dunedin turned up the heaters in the Forsyth Barr Stadium last night as the All Blacks beat the Springboks 21-11 in front of a sellout crowd.

The Rimutaka Hill Road and the Desert Road have reopened after snow forced their closure this morning.

Snow was falling in the hills around Wellington this afternoon as a strong southerly blast snow that brought snow down to sea level moved up the country.

A Dunedin woman having a bite to eat found something extra crunchy and unwelcome at the bottom of her packet of chips.

A Dunedin Casino guard sacked after finding cannabis and flushing it down the loo was unfairly dismissed.

A strong magnitude 5.3 earthquake has rocked much of the West Coast and Otago this morning.