Rosie Manins

A firefighter who rescued an unconscious 3-year-old boy from a burning Invercargill house says in another 30 seconds he would have been retrieving a body.

Questions are being asked about the effectiveness of a glass display case housing a locomotive at the Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin.

Police are looking for the driver of a white 1991 BMW which crashed through a fence and into a residential garage during a police pursuit in Dunedin on Friday evening.

Two Dunedin men are due to appear in court this week for allegedly assaulting police officers at the weekend.

A 14-year-old Dunedin boy remains in a serious but stable condition in Dunedin Hospital after being swept off rocks at Cape Saunders while collecting mussels on Sunday.

Otago will receive about $3.6 million less from the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) than initially planned for maintenance and operations of state highways in the next three years.

An international student in his 20s may face charges, after a double disappearing act on Queens Dr, near Moana Pool, in Dunedin, yesterday.

Arguing is a hard task within a family of lawyers, as Lucy Mehrtens can attest.

Government Budget initiatives will penalise police for performing well, New Zealand Police Association president Greg O'Connor says.

Queen's High School pupil Nikkita Cleaver (17) models a wearable art creation titled Roadmaps and Revelations as designer Esther Kelly (16) makes final adjustments to the garment backstage.

Flaming hands, frozen sheep brains and exploding balloons feature in the latest advanced still and moving footage from Dunedin, likely to be seen around the world.

Northland dairy farmer Katherine Tucker is not fazed by the extra pressure on her to win the National Bank Young Farmer Contest in Dunedin this week.

The Dunedin City Council has sold another piece of its Carisbrook property collection.

Dunedin ratepayers have been spared paying about $100 million in additional interest on the city's $117.6 million stadium debt after councillors voted to reduce the loan term from 40 years to 23.

A day after spending $100 to buy a dog impounded by the Dunedin City Council, St Clair couple Dale Wedlock and Heather Gruppelaar faced a veterinary bill of hundreds to treat their new pet's canine parvovirus.

Cyclists are encouraged to be bright in every sense of the word this winter.

Road improvements along Otago Peninsula need to be continued with urgency before a fatal crash occurs, members of the Otago Peninsula Community Board say.