Shawn McAvinue

Abbotsford School pupils (front from left) Korbyn Couch (6), Carl Salmon (6), Keira Langley (6), Izayah-Kingston Taia (6), (back from left) Jordin Harvey-Roberts (7), Jasmine Hill (8), Maz Te Kanawa (7), Harlem Smaill (7), and Jackson McLennan (7) sing We are Aotearoa in the school hall yesterday to mark the end of New Zealand Music Month today.

Southern district police officers have been told to remain tight-lipped when asked about the nationality of drivers involved in fatal crashes.

The new $25million Emerson's Brewery in Dunedin is on track to open to the public in about five weeks.

A short supply of avocados has some Dunedin residents willing to pay $8 for the scarce fruit.

Police are investigating reports of an aggravated robbery in Dunedin.

The neon horse-and-rider sign on Dunedin's Meridian mall nicknamed Can't Stop has stopped glowing and galloping but it will race again.

Police believe the thefts from several vehicles around Dunedin could be linked.

A disabled Dunedin man is promising justice to the burglar who stole his communication "lifelines'' from his Northeast Valley home.

A police officer attended an incident after a woman was hit by a bus in Dunedin yesterday.

A man has been killed in a bulldozer crash on a West Otago farm today.

A consent to build a 35-room apartment block in Central Dunedin has been approved but a neighbour is determined to continue to fight against the planned build.

Severe gales for coastal parts of Southland, Clutha and Dunedin are forecast for late this afternoon or evening, MetService says.

Thieves are targeting Dunedin homes in daylight, including making off with a boat.

The pedestrian involved in a hit-and-run in central Dunedin has not come forward, but police have found a 15-year-old boy believed to be involved in the incident.