Shawn McAvinue

The hit Dunedin-made television series ZooMoo is set to make a live hometown performance.

Footage of the alleged dumping of petrol in a South Dunedin stormwater drain has been given to police and the Otago Regional Council launched an investigation yesterday.

Firefighters cut a chilled, injured driver from a car in Eastern Southland on Tuesday.

A stolen Nissan Bluebird was involved in a police pursuit last night.

Firefighters cut a hypothermic woman from a car in Eastern Southland about 10pm last night.

A Dunedin car enthusiast believes the final Falcon is a fitting farewell to 90 years of manufacturing by Ford Australia.

The month of dawn-to-dusk fasting gets easier but today is the hardest day to abstain, Otago Muslim Association chairman Steve Johnston says.

Dunedin IceBreaker Challenge competitors paddle outrigger canoes at the start of a 10km race on Otago Harbour on Saturday.

The "co-ordination and confidence'' of nearly 150 dancers was on show in Dunedin on Queen's Birthday weekend.

Seven people were injured in two separate crashes in Otago this afternoon. 

Firefighters had to forcibly enter a Queenstown home tonight to extinguish a blaze in an oven.

Several hundred people from the South Island Filipino community came together in Dunedin at the weekend for a sports tournament.

A group of southern 4WD enthusiasts are taking advantage of optimum weather conditions as they try to salvage their snow-buried vehicles from Waikaia Bush Rd today.

A 24-year-old woman sustained minor injuries after crashing a car through a fence in western Southland today.

Four people were injured when a truck rolled in eastern Southland late last night. 

Military training aircraft hit speeds of 400kmh over Southern lowlands yesterday giving the pilots a "good ground rush''.

The Armed Offenders Squad was called to a South Dunedin house last night.