Rhys Chamberlain

A lamppost was left skewed yesterday after a truck and trailer unit hit the pole and did not stop.

University of Otago dentistry students were forced to resit their last exam without being told why, after 98 unmarked scripts were stolen from the Clocktower Building.

The impact on the region after Fish and Game resigned from a national water use and quality group will be minimal, an Otago representative says.

A Dunedin mechanic has beaten 300 others - mostly Australians - to claim an apprentice of the year award worth $12,500.

If you are a former Taieri College pupil, you might want to get along to experience the 21st-century classrooms, a library and administration block built recently.

It was school as normal at Taieri College on Monday, despite fire ripping through the college's hall at the weekend.

The ''exam office'' of the University of Otago has been broken into, police say.

A safe containing cash and prescription medicine has been ''ripped out of the wall'' of a home in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham.

The anonymous website that hosted a post threatening the shooting of students at the University of Otago on Wednesday had earlier hosted posts targeting a Dunedin student.

The Distinction Dunedin Hotel staff and contractors are working long hours to be ready to accommodate guests visiting the city for Saturday's Neil Diamond concert.

A pair of brazen thieves stole car keys from a squash club changing room, used them to steal a car and then returned the next night to steal ''cash and booze'', police say.

Firewood has been in such hot demand this winter that a local fundraising group thinks ''it's possible'' it can raise most of the $300,000 it needs for a new building.

Firefighters have now contained the vegetation fire that raged across Saddle Hill yesterday, damaging properties and leaving a woman in a serious condition.

Thousands of dollars worth of property, including trophies, portraits of former principals and school magazines dating as far back as the 1950s, were destroyed by Sunday's fire at Taieri College.

A sleeping Leith St resident woke up and 'spooked' intruders thought responsible for a burglary that could be linked to another in North Dunedin.

Protesters face police officers outside the Dunedin Club yesterday as they voice their opinion on the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.

Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti has had some serious issues since it opened at Fairfield in 1998, but in recent times its fortunes have changed for the better. Reporter Rhys Chamberlain sat down with the school's principal to find out why.

Despite unconfirmed reports of people shooting fireworks from moving cars and debris scattered around the city, emergency services are pleased with how Guy Fawkes celebrations went.

Dunedin police are investigating burglaries committed over the past two days, including the theft of gardening tools and supplies from a shed in Halfway Bush.