Damian George

A damaged Toyota Carib sits in a flower bed in Herbert St, Invercargill, near the Queens Dr roundabout, after a two-car collision last night.

Exploring people's change in identity during dementia is one of the many research projects to be undertaken by University of Otago Medical School scholarship recipients.

A Dunedin non-profit store has been hit by vandalism, which staff members say will cost it money that would otherwise have been given to charity.

A young family whose Ravensbourne Rd rental home was destroyed by fire last week have been buoyed by the community support shown for them.

The Lilliput Libraries initiative is getting bigger.

A little rain was not enough to deter the 200 people who came for the Taieri river bank walk yesterday.

It will be a chance to go back in time when flights on an historic southern New Zealand plane are offered to the public this weekend.

A Port Chalmers resident says rivers he swam in as a child are too polluted for his grandchildren to swim in and has called on the Government to put aside cost concerns and clean up New Zealand's waters.

The owners of a Dunedin property damaged by fire last year have turned misfortune into opportunity.

Balclutha woman Cheryl Campbell is not averse to a challenge, and this is a big one.

A measure taken to prevent motorists from parking cars on a section of road near Dunedin Airport has resulted in people parking on a narrower part of State Highway 86 and creating a safety hazard, a Momona resident says.

Orokonui Ecosanctuary ranger Geoff Clarke inspects a a kiwi chick at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary recently.

It is unclear what caused a throttle cable to come loose and send a Monarch Wildlife Cruises and Tours boat reversing into a cliff earlier this week, a company director says.

A woman who suffered serious burns after a gas explosion in a campervan at Lake Hayes this month has undergone skin graft surgery and remains in Dunedin Hospital.