A hunter drank puddle water to slake his thirst and snuggled up to his pig dogs to stay warm after getting lost in a rugged area south of Dunedin for more than 24 hours.

A warning has been issued after two underground tattooists in Dunedin were shut down in the past month for operating out of substandard premises.

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.

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.

Council staff in Dunedin appear to have changed their ways since a culture of ratepayer-funded cafe meetings and expensive staff dinners was revealed two years ago.

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.