Jono Edwards

A person has died after a car rolled down a bank and caught fire in Central Otago this afternoon.

Historical water rights and river minimum flows will be major issues on the mind of new Otago Regional Council chief executive Sarah Gardner  as she steps into the role on Monday.

Eighty years of marriage is a rare thing, but Lillian Brinsdon (99) says there’s no real secret to her long life with husband Eric (also 99).

A police presence remained yesterday at the site of a South Dunedin house fire which killed two people this week.

A man missing from Wakari Hospital since yesterday morning has been found.

In the 22 years of the Brighton Gala Day, organiser Colin Weatherall's motto for the event has not changed.

The bodies of two people who died when fire ripped through a South Dunedin house yesterday morning are expected to be removed today, police say.

The public's help is being sought in making a dilapidated section of the Water of Leith in North Dunedin more attractive and interactive.

A playground in Nairn St, Kaikorai, that was re-surfaced, dug up and re-surfaced again within months.

Mel Ryall was returning to her Wesley St home early yesterday when she saw smoke billowing from her neighbour's property.

The person who accidentally started the Mt Alpha blaze with hot discarded ashes "did all the right things", Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) says.

Para Murray (17), of Kaitaia, takes the temperature of New Plymouth Girls’ High School pupil Bailee Manukonga (17) after she had been pedalling  an exercise bike in 35degC and 60% humidity...

Phone companies are concerned after hundreds of mysterious calls to Otago and Southland residents in the middle of the night.

The Royal Albatross Centre will put to the side a neighbourly water squabble and potentially spend millions on a tidal-powered desalination plant.

The newest puppy patrol recruit and the constable fostering him both have high aspirations in Dunedin's police force.