After a 70-year-old man was robbed during a broad daylight road rage incident, his alleged assailant "went on a spending spree, using the victim's cash and credit cards".
Mistletoe has long been seen as one of two things - something to stand under at Christmas-time for a kiss, or a parasitic plant that grows on other trees.
Dunedin is set to play host to a futuristic, post-human world set in 2530, where intricate civilisations have been built from the remnants of human artefacts and the planet has been taken over by none other than . . . Lego mini figures.
Police are amazed no-one was hurt or killed after a man led officers on a 230km high-speed pursuit across Otago, with a woman and young child on board, all while drinking and livestreaming the action to social media.
"Multiple" police officers were required to restrain and arrest a 26-year-old man who ran amok at Woolworths Dunedin Central supermarket on Wednesday night.
A woman trespassed from a Dunedin funeral home has been arrested and charged after returning to the premises and allegedly picking flowers from floral displays while abusing staff.
For southern plane spotters, all eyes will be on the sky tomorrow afternoon, waiting to catch a "rare sight" of an Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in our own backyard.