George Block

Pot plants have been reported missing from a St Kilda house in suspicious circumstances.

Crime reports in Otago are at their lowest level in four years, as statistics show Southern district police have returned the best resolution rate in the country this year.

A run of rural burglaries have kept Southern police busy over the past week.

Five people were injured when a car and motorhome collided on the Beaumont Highway yesterday afternoon.

New hunters appear to have outrun firearms changes and police licensing activity has shot up in the South this year.

Fire crews worked to free trapped people after two vehicles collided on the Beaumont Highway this afternoon.

Fifteen shops in the South have been selected by police to receive heavily subsidised fog cannons to deter robbers.

A woman was seriously injured after falling from a wall near Knox Church in Dunedin in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A man has been arrested after the attempted robbery of a North Dunedin dairy yesterday.

Leaflets dropped in Dunedin letterboxes promoting anti-Semitic material are an insult to Holocaust survivors, the New Zealand Jewish Council says.

Otago educators have a range of concerns about the national certificate of educational achievement (NCEA), judging by a Dunedin workshop.

Another Dunedin mother has reported a drone hovering over her children as they played in their backyard, as families in South Dunedin and St Kilda fear the unmanned aircraft could be filming them.

Vandals ransacked a Dunedin church hall this week, in what parish staff are calling a wanton act of destruction.

Two brothers who initiated their father into freemasonry at a ceremony in Dunedin this week say they are thrilled to be able to bring him into their world.

South Otago emergency services were kept busy with two crashes in the Clinton Highway early this morning.

A woman is treated for smoke inhalation as firefighters watch after a small fire started in the bathroom of a Mosgiel home yesterday.