George Block

Police are on the trail of a group of youths linked to an assault on a Good Samaritan who tried to stop a car theft in Port Chalmers on Monday night.

Police are on the trail of a group of youths linked to an assault on a Good Samaritan who tried to stop a car theft in Port Chalmers last night.

The imam who was starting a sermon when the shooting began at his Christchurch mosque will deliver the annual peace lecture at the University of Otago this evening.

The Gore District Council mayoral office was reluctant to ban gang patches in part because it wanted to protect its burgeoning relationship with a Mongrel Mob leader.

A survivor of decades of domestic violence says the Dunedin Women's Refuge saved her life.

A group of students who fundraise for the Dunedin Women's Refuge say they are concerned about recent allegations of bullying, unsafe work practices and theft in the organisation.

A woman who saw a group of students hurl bottles at passers-by and subject them to homophobic abuse has criticised the University of Otago for not expelling them.

A person sustained serious injuries when they were hit by a car in North Dunedin this afternoon.

A woman living in a notorious party street in Dunedin's student quarter has described violent attacks and gang members visiting her flat.

Police are appealing for information after a man exposed himself and performed a lewd act in front of another man in Dunedin on Friday evening.

A teenage boy and girl have been referred to Youth Aid after they were caught in a stolen car in Dunedin early today.

A long police chase in Dunedin at the weekend in pursuit of a suspicious character took officers over fences and through bushland, and culminated in a bite from a police dog and an arrest.