A scammer described by police as ''loud and expressive'' has been ripping off South Island Subway outlets.

An autistic man was told ''go home to China'' in a racist verbal attack in central Dunedin this week.

Minister says Housing NZ stock needs work before it can impose conditions on private landlords

Almost 800 long-buried bodies may have been rediscovered by an archaeologist in Central Otago.

The main offender in a black market paua operation worth tens of thousands of dollars has admitted responsibility, part-way through his trial in the Dunedin District Court.

A suspected "bomb" found at Hampden, North Otago at the weekend turned out to be just a downed weather-monitoring device.

In a positive development for Dunedin's tertiary education industry, Otago Polytechnic predicts higher student numbers later this year.

A bright "sparkly" silver object seen falling from the sky in Otago on Sunday afternoon was probably a rarely seen daylight meteor.

Every time Mosgiel resident Nick Vermeulen looks in the mirror, the consequences of his actions are reflected in the asymmetry of his face.

Two students who fell off the roof of the same Dunedin flat within minutes of each other say the incidents are a reminder for students to think before they act.

What caused a Hororata pilot to fly his glider into the side of a mountain near Omarama in a fatal crash in January last year may never be definitively known.

Two Fulton Hogan workers had a lucky escape when their ute rolled into an oxidation pond.

A man received burns to his arm and leg when the lpg cylinder he was attending to caught fire at the Glendhu Bay Lakeside Holiday Park in central Otago late yesterday morning.

The risks of illegal drug use have been highlighted by a South Island coroner in his findings on the death of a 48-year-old man who had injected morphine.

The body of a person, believed to be missing Clutha teenager Blake Sinclair, has been found today.

Police have charged a Whangarei man after a high-powered green laser light was shone into the cockpit of the Northland rescue helicopter as the crew prepared to land.

The family of missing teenager Blake Sinclair will carry out their own private search of the Clutha River after the official search was scaled down, police say.

The search for missing South Otago teenager Blake McKenzie Sinclair will today become a recovery operation, police say.

An extensive search of the Clutha River has failed to locate a teenager who disappeared while kneeboarding yesterday afternoon.