Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.

A jetboat driver has been fined and ordered to pay reparation to the family of a British tourist killed in a river boat crash in December 2008.

Set to tour with new album Form, Dunedin noise punks Die! Die! Die! talk to Shane Gilchrist about how they've undergone a change of approach and label after a three-year hiatus.

A NZ representative cyclist and his Otago teammate are flabbergasted after being driven off the road and abused by two women.

Police searching for missing 40-year-old Dunedin woman Gayle Dianne Heath have found a body.

Rugby writer Wynne Gray takes a nostalgic look at Carisbrook before the "quaint old arena" hosts its final All Blacks test this evening.

Things are not the same down south. Carisbrook is in its death roll, the students' soakhole at the Gardies is closing...

A notorious student pub in Dunedin closed to avoid riotous farewell celebrations at tonight's All Blacks test match.

Dunedin student pub The Garden Tavern, known as Gardies, will close its doors for the final time this weekend after being sold to Otago University this year.