Oscar Francis

Police believe a Dunedin man narrowly avoided being hit by a car which crashed into a lamppost.

A car narrowly missed a pedestrian before slamming into a lamp post in Dunedin’s George St this afternoon, police say.

A man has appeared in court accused of wounding a 66-year-old man, in what police say was an unprovoked attack at the Dunedin Botanic Garden.

Police are on the hunt for a wanted person who fled officers in a stolen car from Mosgiel.

Emergency services take an injured person on a stretcher to a helicopter after a collision on State Highway 6 near Makarora on Tuesday afternoon.

The New Zealand Defence Force is one step closer to acquiring lethal drones, as a trial begins for an Australian-made loitering munition being battle tested in Ukraine.

About 30 passengers on a sightseeing trip had an unexpected stop when their bus slid in slippery conditions in the Dunedin suburb of Waverley today.

Emergency services have attended a crash between a truck and an electric vehicle in central Dunedin.

A rural fire chief says an out-of-control burnoff which required eight appliances and a helicopter to get under control was "no sweat" for volunteer fire crews.

A driver fled the scene after crashing into a Dunedin parking meter and ripping it out of the pavement.

A 66-year-old man received a large cut to his head in an unprovoked attack in the Dunedin Botanic Garden, police say.

A Dunedin woman’s sneeze resulted in a nose to tail crash, police say.

A Dunedin developer is unimpressed the owners of the crumbling building next door have been granted a months-long extension of their compliance notice.

A 21-year-old man who crashed his ute on a remote Otago road was found to be more than four times the legal alcohol limit, police say.