Laine Priestley

A group of first-year University of Otago students were forced to bite off the legs of live ducks as part of a "sick and twisted" Dunedin flat initiation.

Emergency services attend a gas leak in George St, central Dunedin, yesterday morning, the result of construction workers opening up  an old gas main.

A Facebook marketplace sale turned ugly when the buyer and seller deliberately rammed each other in a Green Island carpark on Wednesday.

Rocks plucked from riverbeds and painted by one Haast local have travelled all around the country in a nationwide scavenger hunt.

A horrified mother says a group of first-year University of Otago students were forced to bite off the legs of live ducks as part of a "sick and twisted" Dunedin flat initiation.

A pedestrian has been taken to hospital after being hit by a car in South Dunedin.

A Facebook marketplace sale turned ugly when the buyer and seller deliberately rammed each other in a Green Island car park yesterday, witnesses say.

The University of Otago has informed police as it investigates a "traumatic" flat initiation involving a live eel.

The University of Otago has informed police as it investigates a "traumatic" flat initiation involving a live eel.

Electricity company staff worked around the clock to restore power after high winds on Monday brought down lines across the South.

Police speak to one of two youths reported to be brandishing a gun on a Dunedin rooftop yesterday.

Emergency services attend the scene where a ute crashed over a bank near Upper Junction yesterday morning.

Passersby received a shock after seeing a pair of youths brandishing what looked like a gun on a Dunedin rooftop today.

As voting season started, a steady stream of students made their way to voting booths set up at the University of Otago Link building yesterday.

Lego sculptures in the Edgar Centre left children and adults wide-eyed with wonder at the Dunedin Brick Show over the weekend.