Someone could have died when a car using a skinny space-saver wheel raced another at speeds of up to 151kmh on Dunedin's Southern Motorway, police said yesterday.
Tobacco displays in shops look set to be banned next year in what some hope is the beginning of the end for tobacco sales in New Zealand.
The number of school trustees who say they have no confidence in the national standards should double by the end of the month in a groundswell the Government ignores at its peril, the New Zealand Education Institute (NZEI) says.
Neil Collins has farewelled a friend of nearly 40 years that came to him after he was bashed in Wellington and was with him when he met Johnny Cash and the Dalai Lama.
Residents likely to be affected by the Caversham Valley highway redevelopment want the Dunedin City Council to help them get a better deal.
Nearly 50 truck operators waiting to get permits to carry heavier loads through Otago under a new road rule should finally be able to get them, six months after the rule was introduced.
Otago's young anglers should not be treated like criminals for using a family licence to fish without a guardian, Fish and Game Otago chairman Monty Wright says.
A rare piece of New Zealand's steam history dumped at a Dunedin scrap metal yard will give new life to a locomotive pulled from a West Coast river.
A forlorn hulk among ruptured oil drums and discarded axles at a Dunedin scrap-metal yard could be a rare piece of New Zealand steam engine history.
Dunedin City Council candidate Bev Butler has dropped her bid for an election recount and raised the spectre of future recounts becoming the preserve of the rich and well-connected.
Alison Shanks had to be coaxed into taking New Zealand's first gold medal of the Delhi Commonwealth Games from the pocket of her black and white tracksuit.
Dishonest southerners have been kicked out of their state houses as the Government cracks down on people defrauding the system.
The Otago Regional Council (ORC) needs to rethink plans to drop degraded wetlands from its revised regional water plan, Fish and Game Otago councillors say.
Signs urging cars and cyclists to share the road on Otago Peninsula recognise the changing face of local road use, Dunedin City Council senior transportation planner Bruce Conaghan says.
Fish and Game Otago is backing its man on the Fish and Game New Zealand Council after the national body's chairman said he was considered self-serving and destructive.
This time the people who queued for seats at Dunedin's Regent Theatre could take them home.
With thousands of dollars on the meter, Jim Coxon, of Dunedin Taxis, is driving the fare of a lifetime.
More than 1800 chairs were this week unbolted from the Regent Theatre's floor for new homes with community groups and in homes as the theatre was prepared for its long-anticipated refit.
Diesel stocks are tight and companies are sharing what they have after a refinery shut-down, bad weather at sea, and problems getting fuel from South Korea.
Dozens of New Zealand aircraft were effectively grounded after a fault was found in their emergency locator transmitters.
