Shawn McAvinue

An out-of-control car reversed at high speed through the door of a Dunedin art gallery last night.

A Dunedin truck driver is a win away from representing New Zealand in the world finals of a truck fuel-consumption competition in Sweden.

The Mayan calendar predicts the world will end next month, but a bevy of brides is set to appease the gods in Waitati tomorrow.

Family Court lawyers provide direction and protect vulnerable children, University of Otago law faculty dean Mark Henaghan says.

Ashes in a plastic bucket were the cause of the fire that gutted a two-storeyed family home in Waikouaiti yesterday, specialist fire investigator Barry Gibson says.

A cruise ship sinks in Otago Harbour. What do you do?

Synthetic cannabis is a ''clinical burden'' on health services, a Dunedin Hospital emergency department doctor, Ohad Dar, says.

The kind words spoken at a special High Court sitting at Dunedin for a retiring judge went without argument on Friday.

Bleak weather and a move to Dunedin's Middle Beach failed to dampen the spirits of swimmers at the annual Polar Plunge yesterday.

Zombie-like youth, high on a ''dirty drug'', with twitching muscles and slurred speech, are changing the work of social service staff in Dunedin, Otago Adventure Development counsellor Scott Blair says.

A 99-year-old villa began its move from Dunedin to East Taieri yesterday.

A new $23,000 Mosgiel clock is ''overstating'' temperatures by up to 10degC, says Mosgiel Taieri Community Board chairman Bill Feather.

A Christchurch-based right-wing political party has delivered anti-Chinese Government flyers in the South as it prepares to form Otago branches.

Quad bike-related claims cost the Government nearly $12 million last year and, despite extended safety campaigns, riders continue to die.