Hamish McNeilly

Confirmation New Zealand Post was changing mail delivery targets before the local body elections next month will not impact on voting.

Police are on the beat and delivering crime prevention advice to Dunedin communities.

Two passengers flung from a crashed vehicle near Dunedin yesterday are lucky to be alive, police say.

A poisonous gas leak led to a 100m-wide cordon in a busy Dunedin industrial area yesterday afternoon.

A gas leak in Dunedin has been isolated and emergency services are standing down.

Courts Minister Chester Borrows has a simple message for those in the South who collectively owe more than $27 million in fines and reparations.

Police are not commenting on reports a 3-week-old baby in hospital with life-threatening injuries allegedly had her throat slashed during an incident in her Invercargill home.

The sole occupant of a newly-renovated Dunedin home extensively damaged in a fire fled the inferno after she was woken by a smoke alarm.

A 17-year-old Port Chalmers youth was saved from what was described as certain death after his fall off a cliff was broken by a fortuitously located tree stump yesterday afternoon.

Major upgrade work for the Ocean Beach Railway is on track.

Community concerns that a school pedestrian crossing was an ''accident waiting to happen'' have prompted the Dunedin City Council to investigate.

Commercial printer Wickliffe has confirmed the loss of 19 jobs from its Dunedin operations.

Dunedin accommodation is filling up for October's Bledisloe Cup rugby encounter, prompting Jetstar to add a late-night flight and Air New Zealand to run extra services.

David Bain's compensation bid is one of three before the Justice Minister, who also has the power to intervene in the dozen royal prerogative of mercy applications, including that of Teina Pora, a criminologist says.

Police have confirmed a Rolls-Royce found stashed in a container is linked to convicted fraudster Michael Swann, who paid a ''substantial fee'' for the rare vehicle.

Dozens of claims relating to Taser injuries, including burns and lacerations, have been received by the Accident Compensation Corporation.