Hamish McNeilly

Powerhouse South Island iwi Ngai Tahu is keeping a "watching brief" on water ownership, but does not see the issue affecting the partial sale of state assets.

A female student covered in glow paint and vomit was found by police grossly intoxicated, hypothermic and alone in a Dunedin industrial area early yesterday following a mass party at the Edgar Centre.

Grossly intoxicated people in Dunedin may be driven home in a courtesy van, as part of a pilot project by the police.

A smoke alarm is credited with saving the life of a sleeping Dunedin night-shift worker yesterday afternoon.

A long-held wish to fly in a helicopter came true for a Dunedin nonagenarian, thanks to a high-flying fundraising venture.

Ladies and gentlemen, raise your Globelets.

Police are cold-calling recidivist drink-drivers in an effort to reduce offences on southern roads.

A trio of barbers is hoping its new business will be a cut above.

The Dunedin student area - once a hot spot for thieves - is on track to record a significant drop in burglaries.

More than 300 Southern drivers have received strikes under the so-called "boy-racer" legislation, figures show.

One of the biggest recipients of pokie grants in Dunedin - the Dunedin City Council - could be involved in the future distribution of gambling cash.

Two burning teenagers fled a house fire after the gas bottles from which they were allegedly "huffing" exploded in Mosgiel yesterday afternoon.

A police pursuit through central Dunedin ended with a teenager spending last night in custody.

A man who lost control of his car on black ice early yesterday, sending the car skidding 70m before it hit a power pole, was in a stable condition in Dunedin Hospital's intensive care unit with serious head injuries last night.