Oscar Francis

A Dunedin man and his grandson feel shaken — but lucky to be alive — following an early morning house fire caused by a charging tablet battery bursting into flames.

Dunedin caregivers were left frustrated by a failed raid by armed police that played out as they were trying to get children home from school.

Gang members transferred to Milburn prison during their sentences could be using the time to set up shop in the South before their release, a union leader and a former inmate say.

A Dunedin landlord says the Government’s extensions to Healthy Homes standards will hit social housing tenants hardest, but private landlords will be largely unaffected.

A couple warned by Dunedin police after allegedly performing an indecent act under a duvet twice in 24 hours in broad daylight say they hope to get their lives back on track in Queenstown.