The smile on Poppy McConville's face said it all. It was because she had been able to compete alongside her fellow pupils in the annual race.

Make sure you wrap up warm for the next few weeks - frigid temperatures are set to make August the coldest month of the year.

Ninetieth birthdays are worth celebrating in anyone's book. But what do you do if you have no family in Dunedin to celebrate it with?

Police have yet to decide if they will charge a man who allegedly shot his neighbour's cat on Thursday evening.

A Dunedin street has become an unlikely tourist attraction, after people have shared photos on social media of a bizarre optical illusion.

Singer/songwriter Anna van Riel pens an ode to her favourite spot.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is vowing to defend a $500,000 defamation claim, after being served with legal papers while walking down the street yesterday.

A hunter who got lost and spent two nights in freezing conditions in the Blue Mountains has vowed to return to the area for some unfinished business.

The hunter missing in Blue Mountains of South Otago has been found.

A Central Otago man craving chocolate was so angry a vending machine failed to produce the goods, he turned to his Black and Decker grinder.

A speeding car crashed off a Dunedin motorway while its driver was fleeing from police tonight.

Syrian refugees sang and danced in the aisles of a train on an "awesome" trip across the Otago countryside yesterday.

A checkout supervisor was "shaking" as she put a winning Lotto ticket barcode to the scanner. The machine beeped and the screen read $13.36 million.

Floods and ice around New Zealand are hitting school holiday travel plans.

Named for a local tribe, a branch of the Waitaha people, and Ngati Mamoe.

Three inexperienced surfers are counting their lucky starfish after getting caught in a rip and being sucked out to sea yesterday.

One in three motorists will drive further to buy cheaper fuel, according to a nationwide survey of our service station habits.

These places will prove to be the cherry on top of your Otago holiday.

Nearly $60,000 was spent rescuing 38 people stranded after their 4WD vehicles became trapped in snow in Central Otago.

Nothing says Kiwi bloke more than a black singlet. We look at those characters in our culture that have helped ingrain that image

Study shows that Aucklanders are most likely to have experienced road rage than any other city.

A Canadian wept as he was sentenced today for careless driving causing the death of an 81-year-old woman near Owaka.

Investigators seek cause of overnight blazes.

Dredging of shipping canal leads to explosive discovery.

Police are investigating a serious assault which took place on the corner of the Octagon and Princes Street in Dunedin at 1.45am on Sunday, June 12.

Jock Davies looks like any other sports-mad Kiwi kid, but behind his youthful grin is courage aplenty.

All Blacks greeted with a powerful haka by local high schools on their arrival in Dunedin Airport for their last test match against Wales

Two men plucked from Lake Wakatipu after an ill-equipped attempt to go camping on an island are lucky to be alive, Queenstown's harbourmaster says.

A firefighter rescued a woman from a tree in a flooded Otago river after a boating accident.