Rhys Chamberlain

Two young girls have been left upset and scared after being approached by strangers in South Dunedin.

Thieves with a sweet tooth have stolen confectionery - K Bars and small chocolate miniatures - as well as a cash register from a Ravensbourne commercial premises.

Thieves with a sweet tooth have stolen K-bars and "small chocolate miniatures" as well as a cash register from a Ravensbourne commercial premises.

Police have seized 800 cannabis plants in Otago and Southland with an estimated street value of $700,000, more than double that of last year.

Don't ask the world's best aerobatic stunt pilot if he's ever crashed. He won't tell you.

Please don't dress as Arabs, Mexicans, Nazis, Caitlyn Jenner or Bill Cosby, Hyde St party-goers are being asked.

Dunedin seemed to be occupied by two kinds of people yesterday, the Irish and those who wished they were Irish.

Two dogs were removed by the SPCA in 2014 from a horror house in rural Dunedin where further mistreatment of animals allegedly took place, the Dunedin City Council says.

Royal Albatross Centre staff have recorded 250 dead red-billed gulls this season, some having been squashed by visitor cars in the car park.

Police have stepped up patrols in the student quarter after two couch fires on Castle St overnight and two arrests for disorderly behaviour.

Thieves made off with several bottles of booze from Thirsty Liquor, Green Island, in what police are describing as a "smash and grab".

It seems parking officers don't just give out infringement notices. They moonlight as heroes, too.

A Milton rugby team may have to wear their alternate strip after thieves stole their uniform.

The Otago University Students' Association has come under fire from students irate at its Hyde St Party ticketing system after many missed out.

Syrian refugees will get something to call their own when they arrive in Dunedin.

Dunedin's infamous student party in Hyde St will go ahead this weekend despite several high-profile incidents involving students during the past month.

Authorities were still cleaning up the mess yesterday after hurricane-force wind gusts left about 10,000 Otago homes without power.

A Henley farmer returned home to find the roof of his house had been ripped off by category two hurricane-force wind gusts.