A ''tiki tour'' around a Chaslands farm on Wednesday evening ended in tragedy for a ''great kid'', who was recently named head boy of the Catlins Area School, the principal says.
A 20-year-old man caught allegedly doing burnouts in his vehicle this week, may soon join the several hundred other motorists convicted of illegal street racing in the South.
An investigation has been launched by Internal Affairs, after an unlicensed security guard was found working at a Central Otago hot-spot on New Year's Eve.
Otago's road toll increased to 17 deaths last year, while the national road toll was also up.
Ghostly sightings may have left Cumberland College students spooked, but now a tourist has reported being bullied by a ghost at Larnach Castle.
Three fine dodgers were told to pay up on arrival at Dunedin International Airport this month.
An allegation that several hundred police positions, including frontline staff, could be moved from the South Island to the North Island has been dismissed by Police Minister Anne Tolley as scaremongering.
A teenager is wanted by police for his alleged involvement in two early-morning assaults in central Dunedin yesterday.
They came, they saw, and the All Blacks conquered.
A Multimillion-Dollar extension to the Otakou marae is expected to be delivered on time and on budget.
Future economic opportunity was the focus of an inaugural hui between Dunedin City Council and Ngai Tahu leaders yesterday.
Police have expressed confidence in their use of ankle bracelets, despite figures revealing 13% of defendants have escaped electronic monitoring since the scheme was introduced in 2006.
''I did not kill my family,'' David Bain maintains in the transcript of his interview with the Canadian judge appointed to review his compensation case for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a Keep it Clean truck on Three Mile Hill Rd, Dunedin, yesterday morning.
The death of a former Dunedin woman in New South Wales is to be looked at by the coroner following a private investigation by her family.
Ten non-sworn police jobs will be cut in the South, but Southern district commander Superintendent Bob Burns maintains changes are designed to get police away from "filling out endless forms" and on to the front line.
The charred aftermath of a fire has prevented Gretta Jamieson from returning to the Green Island home she has lived in for nearly 60 years.
The close-knit family of a former Dunedin woman found dead in her Sydney apartment three years ago remain convinced she was murdered.
At least one Dunedin dairy is allowing K2 users to buy the legal high product "on tick", despite synthetic cannabis continuing to be a driver of crime in the South, police say.
A man has been charged with drink-driving just hours after being released from prison, after allegedly smashing into four parked cars.
