Heavy rain across Southland yesterday cut off towns, closed roads, knocked out telecommunication links and saw floodwaters threaten to spill over stopbanks, with Civil Defence keeping a watching brief on the developing situation overnight.
It was a family affair at the Mosgiel Anzac service yesterday.
An arts project by a 21-year-old Otago Polytechnic student, sparked a major bomb scare in Dunedin yesterday - the second scare in as many days.
Police have drinking duck-shooters in their sights, and warn they will be targeting anyone who consumes alcohol around firearms.
Factors contributing to death and injury from using quad bikes have been specifically identified by University of Otago research.
A 37-year-old woman, who is alleged to have fraudulently claimed money from food outlets for poor-quality food, turned herself in to Dunedin police last night.
As travellers scramble to rearrange flights because of a volcanic ash cloud shrouding much of Europe, a Dunedin-based volcanologist is offering some free travel advice - don't risk it.
She sang about a funny face, but she has her serious face on now and her hat in the ring contesting the Invercargill mayoralty. Hamish McNeilly talks to Suzanne Prentice.
They have seen the billboards, heard the advertising campaigns and, this week, a Shanghai-based couple had the opportunity to experience New Zealand first hand.
Organic gardening, constructing septic tanks, refurbishing photocopiers and printing business cards are just some of the business enterprises operated out of New Zealand prisons.
An ambulance was called at 8.45pm to Magdala St, Tainui following reports a 38-year-old woman had been stabbed in the head, torso and leg.
Tim Shadbolt and his challenger Suzanne Prentice, are both promising a "clean" campaign for the Invercargill mayoralty.
Poaching remains a constant menace for jewelled gecko on the Otago Peninsula, but pales in comparison to the threat from mice, rats and stoats.
Police have released a CCTV image of a man thought to be involved in an aggravated robbery in central Dunedin earlier this month, and are appealing to the public for help finding the alleged offender.
An 18-year-old woman was knocked unconscious in an incident yesterday.
When dozens of items of underwear went missing from his mother's Abbotsford clothesline, Nick Reeves decided to take the matter into his own hands.
Customs officials have confirmed another seizure of the recreational drug mephedrone, involving a package destined for a Wanaka address.
Police want to speak to a woman they say must be either the unluckiest diner in Dunedin or a scam artist who is conning city eateries out of hundreds of dollars.
An alleged serial underwear thief was arrested in Dunedin yesterday, with police hoping to reunite the "large quantity" of recovered female briefs with their rightful owners.
Rest assured - this is a very wheel boat.
