Laine Priestley

A drug deal gone wrong ended in car crashed into a power pole after two teenagers fled a Dunedin property after being assaulted, police say.

A man who attempted to rob a Dunedin petrol station also allegedly assaulted a member of the public on his way from the scene.

Protesters dressed in red took to the streets of Dunedin to mourn the loss of extinct animals and birds in a bid to raise awareness of the damage the cruise ship industry has on the environment.

A Dunedin petrol station was the scene of an armed robbery this evening.

A man has died after he fell from a Dunedin property earlier this week.

A woman with more than 100 criminal convictions was witnessed waving a knife around and threatening members of the public, a court has heard.

An Invercargill police officer believed he was about to be shot when he fired two sponge bullets into the back of a fleeing offender.

Two vehicles clipping each other’s wing mirrors led to an alleged assault on Wednesday morning.

Two vehicles clipping wing mirrors sparked an early morning road rage assault in Dunedin.

Dunedin police have spoken to a youth in relation to Tuesday’s armed lockdown at Bayfield High School.

Police were forced to abandon a chase sparked when a driver sped past a patrol car on Otago Peninsula.

A Dunedin five-year-old got into some before-school mischief when they set their own fence on fire this morning.