Chris Morris

An Air New Zealand flight bound for Dunedin with more than 100 passengers on board has been forced to land in Christchurch after a mechanical fault.

A car suspected of doing "some sort of burn-out'' near Oamaru had to be rescued from a ditch by a tractor after crashing tonight, police say.

Armed police rushed to South Dunedin this afternoon after reports of a man carrying a weapon.

Difficulty in finding and retaining skilled chefs in Dunedin is behind the decision to close the city's Madam Woo restaurant, the company's chief executive says.

A push to address Port Otago's asbestos problems looks likely to claim a treasured building in Port Chalmers, but also open up public access to more of Steamer Basin.

Dunedin taxi operators are calling for the city's new Lime scooters to be forced off footpaths and on to cycleways.

The driver of a car escaped injury after colliding with a truck and trailer on Dunedin's Southern Motorway this afternoon.

Madam Woo is blaming "ongoing skilled labour shortages'' for a decision to close its Dunedin restaurant.

A Dunedin bar criticised for repeated overcrowding has been caught out again, and now faces the prospect of a possible licence suspension.

The Catholic Bishop of Dunedin is still not ready to decide on a name change for Kavanagh College, but insists he is ‘‘working quite hard’’ on the issue.

A former Dunedin priest convicted of abusing four boys - and alleged to have targeted many more - finally faces the possibility of being defrocked by the Vatican.

The man behind a golf hole-in-one challenge at Vauxhall says his plans for the development are still ''ticking along'', despite a months'-long delay resolving an Environment Court appeal.

The long wait for a new bridge is almost over for Sutton farmers left facing detours after a damaging flood in 2017.

The Dunedin City Council has struck a deal with Football South over block bookings for the artificial playing surfaces under construction at Logan Park.

A broken-down coach left abandoned in the Dunedin suburb of Maia for almost three days was rescued yesterday.