A quick-thinking off-duty policeman woke residents to tell them their central Dunedin flat was burning before apprehending the man suspected of starting the fire.
The Dame Malvina Major Foundation Dunedin Aria Competition winners soprano Natasha Wilson (left) and tenor Filipe Manu, who competed at Marama Hall last night.
A mourning family is preparing for the possibility the man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash which killed Dunedin man Riley Baker may never serve prison time.
After evading police for months, Mosgiel man Robert Laxon was apprehended yesterday after a high-speed pursuit in West Harbour where he crashed a stolen vehicle into a police car, police say.
Poets Gregory Kan (left), Lynley Edmeades and Hera Lindsay Bird read some of their works at the opening of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival in Dunedin last night.