A combination of T-shirt-warm weather and a sudden downpour that flooded drains last night provided the perfect playground for Otematata holidaymakers (from left) Max (11) and Ella Gomez (7), of Dunedin, Grace (8) and William McCone (11), of Christchurch and Jed (6) and Zach Gimblett (9), of Christchurch.
When the ducklings were determined to sit on the motorway, there was one police officer who fit the bill.
She is 23, unmarried, childless and tattooed, none of which is likely to go down well in China, but Dunedin woman Carmen Norgate is going to test the waters anyway when she travels there next week to help her grandmother with her traditional Chinese medicine practice.
Tom Taylor believes his plastic bottle wall, and every message added to it by another member of the public, is making the world a better place.
Got some spare time these summer holidays? What better thing to do than go hunting - for that ultimate bargain.
A fire that gutted a million-dollar Dunedin house yesterday is being treated as a suspected arson.
New Zealand is set for its lowest annual toll of road deaths since 1952 - the last year in which fewer than 300 people were killed in vehicle crashes.
As you sit back in your armchair sated with turkey, new potatoes and a sherry trifle this Christmas Day, spare a thought for those having to make a visit to the emergency department.
A Dunedin trucking company is acting on its concerns about the visibility of cyclists around the city by giving away hundreds of high-visibility vests to cyclists.
Dunedin police are seeking any witnesses to an incident in which two boys apparently set fire to a hedgehog, killing it.
A synthetic cannabis product recently available in Dunedin, about which local police had expressed concern, is to be banned, Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne announced yesterday.
The handling of a bomb threat to a Dunedin-bound domestic flight on Wednesday has been heavily criticised.
The death of a young Dunedin man from inhaling butane gas should serve as a warning that anyone who plays the odds can lose at any time, no matter who they are, his family says.
Police are investigating the possibility a driver who crashed a bus into a barrier, a bus shelter and then a rock retaining wall in Ravensbourne last night had a medical event immediately before the crash.
The footpath immediately around this stone retaining wall at the corner of Smith and Stuart Sts in central Dunedin was closed off yesterday after the wall began to bulge.
Dunedin police staff this week received recognition and thanks for their involvement in everything from the resolution of the country's biggest police sex scandal to interviewing child victims of serious crime.
A trio of fire engines has proved a colourful diversion in South Dunedin during the past fortnight.
Some passengers were left too scared to fly after a bomb threat caused disruption at Dunedin International Airport last night.
A police officer and a farmer have a warning for the people who stole some meat from a Taieri Mouth farm - beware what you eat.
A police operation targeting alcohol abuse in the South has netted 25 drink-drivers and uncovered five breaches of the Sale of Liquor Act at hotels, 18 arrests for alcohol-related offending, more than 30 liquor-ban warnings and seven warnings for minors drinking.
