Truck clips bridge and crashes
Truck clips bridge and crashes
An unfamiliar configuration of truck and trailer caught out a logging truck driver in Dunedin yesterday, when the empty trailer clipped an overbridge.
Debbie Porteous
Allied Security accused of NZQA 'cheating'
Allied Security accused of NZQA 'cheating'
Allied Security is being investigated after it was accused of providing its staff with the answers to New Zealand Qualifications Authority-approved tests in order to claim subsidies.
Police warning over hoax death-threat emails
Police warning over hoax death-threat emails
Police say an email that threatens the death of the recipient is a nasty hoax.
Pub licence suspended oversubsidised jug promotion
Pub licence suspended oversubsidised jug promotion
The on-licence of Dunedin student pub the Captain Cook Tavern has been suspended for 24 hours after a $3.50-per-jug promotion was allowed to take place during a quiz night attended mainly by students.
Girl attacked by neighbour's dog
Girl attacked by neighbour's dog
Natasha Iti learned at school last year that if a dog attacks you, you should stay still and protect your head.
Saturated Southland begins mop-up
Saturated Southland begins mop-up
Thousands of hectares of farmland remain underwater and more than 50 roads are still affected by the worst floods in Southland in more than a decade.
Mourners farewell mother of paralympian star
Mourners farewell mother of paralympian star
About 800 people attended the funeral of Taieri woman Gayle Hall, the mother of paralympian gold medalist Adam Hall, in Mosgiel, today.
Costs arising from the ashes
Costs arising from the ashes
The costs continue to mount as a large forestry fire at Mt Allan, near Dunedin, continues to smoulder underground two months after it started.
Youth prosecutions highest
Youth prosecutions highest
Young people who have a run-in with the law in the Southern police district are more likely to face prosecution than anywhere else in the country, statistics released yesterday indicate.
Police trialling e-ticketing machines
Police trialling e-ticketing machines
Issuing traffic tickets could become a lot easier for police if a Southern police district trial of new hand-held e-ticketing machines is successful.
Bomb hoax inquiry continuing
Bomb hoax inquiry continuing
Dunedin airport police continue to investigate the discovery of a hoax bomb in a toilet at Dunedin International Airport last week.
Emotional unveiling of memorial
Emotional unveiling of memorial
Almost 70 years since they played marbles together as girls at Portobello School, a most solemn occasion brought three former Portobello women together again this Anzac Day.
Getting into wrong truck a blessing
Getting into wrong truck a blessing
Getting into the wrong truck on January 10, 1942, might just have saved Richard Skinner's life.
'Last Post' haunting duty for proud bugler
'Last Post' haunting duty for proud bugler
If you think it is tough choking back the emotion during the Last Post on Anzac Day, spare a thought this year for the bugler.
Raids target Mongrel Mob hierarchy; 8 arrested
Raids target Mongrel Mob hierarchy; 8 arrested
A senior Mongrel Mob Aotearoa gang member and six female associates were arrested in raids across Dunedin yesterday.
Honour roll makes pupils think
Honour roll makes pupils think
A roll of honour not yet officially unveiled has prompted an emotional reaction from the relatives of former pupils of Dunedin's Kavanagh College who died in World War 2.
Anzac memorial for seven Portobello soldiers
Anzac memorial for seven Portobello soldiers
Laurel Dunn with the new war memorial at Portobello which will be officially unveiled on Anzac Day. Photo by Craig Baxter.
A visit to Italy five years ago has resulted in Portobello this year having its first Anzac Day service in 50 years.
Broad Bay woman Laurel Dunn said a visit to her uncle's grave at the Sangro River Cemetery in Italy five years ago made her think something had to be done at Portobello to remember the local men who died at war.
More than 800 mourners honour Gayle Hall
More than 800 mourners honour Gayle Hall
Gayle Hall's unbridled enthusiasm for life was remembered in a ceremony marked by as many laughs as tears in Mosgiel yesterday.
Drivers failing to react to emergency vehicles
Drivers failing to react to emergency vehicles
Emergency services are uneasy about the number of motorists in the South who are not pulling over for vehicles responding to emergencies.
Poppy sellers needed
Poppy sellers needed
The Dunedin RSA is seeking more volunteers to sell poppies as the number of able veterans falls by the year.