Laine Priestley

As families across Dunedin spent their Christmas soaking up the sun and spending time with loved ones, Fire and Emergency New Zealand employees were in uniform and on the job.

A Dunedin couple had the Christmas present of a lifetime when their baby girl entered the world early on Christmas Day.

Foodbanks around the city have had their coffers filled to the brim thanks to a huge response from the Dunedin community for the annual can drive.

Christmas shoppers battling roadworks in central Dunedin have also had their nostrils assailed by an unpleasant odour.

Drugs were found on the front seat of the car of a man wanted for breaching bail conditions last night, police say.

Police are appealing for information after batteries worth $4000 were stolen from a Port Otago noise monitoring station in Port Chalmers.

A car was damaged during an altercation between two groups at Aramoana Spit early yesterday, police say.

A fence built to keep two warring elderly neighbours separate seems to be doing little to cool tensions at a block of Dunedin flats.

An early morning drinker whose vehicle slammed into a wall in Dunedin had a breath-alcohol level that was three times the legal limit, police say.

A car was damaged during an altercation between two groups at Aramoana Spit in the early hours of the morning, police say.

A fence built to keep two warring elderly neighbours separate seems to be doing little to cool tensions at a block of Dunedin flats.

A prisoner at Otago Corrections Facility was taken to hospital after an assault on Sunday afternoon.

A lit cigarette left to smoulder on a couch caused a Dunedin basement to go up in flames on Saturday.

Three women have been arrested after being found in stolen cars in Dunedin at the weekend, police say.

A woman wandering around a Dunedin hospital was arrested twice after drinking patients' water and walking into rooms, police say.