Timothy Brown

The son of an Australian tourist found dead on a dark highway near Bluff has paid tribute to his beautiful and kind mother.

Police investigating the burglaries of several Wakari houses are looking for a man who failed to appear in court this week.

An Italian tourist who killed a Southland dairy worker will live with the guilt for the rest of his life, the Dunedin District Court has heard.

Police are warning about the dangers of an unlicensed online taxi service after one teenager touting for rides indecently assaulted his heavily intoxicated passenger.

The bill for the June flood has climbed to well over $30 million, but the true cost will never be known, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says.

O Week has been lauded a success by authorities. 

A motorcyclist is dead and another motorist is seriously injured after a crash involving as many as five vehicles south of Oamaru.

After a half-century in the hot seat, Ken Wilson is not yet ready to jump out of the fire.

Firefighters throughout Otago are braced for severe gales and high temperatures as another ''fire spike'' day hits the region.

Police are investigating the death of a prisoner at the Otago Corrections Facility. Prison director Jack Harrison confirmed staff found the prisoner in an ''unresponsive state'' on Sunday night.

Police responding to reports of shots being fired at a Corstorphine property allegedly found a cannabis cultivation operation.

Ngai Tahu is singing in unison the praises of Otago after the iwi's biennial hui was held in the province for the first time.

The winds of change were met by local turbulence at a meeting on the proposed Porteous Hill wind farm.

Two men had a ''lucky escape'' after the vehicle they were in ploughed through a ''Slow down before bends!'' sign and ploughed into Otago Harbour.

Dunedin hotels and motels are fully booked next weekend.

Police are calling on southern motorists to slow down, take care and to take advantage of police rest stops around the district during the long weekend.

Police are lauding the quick thinking of a pilot who carried out an emergency landing on the hills above Ocean View, near Dunedin, today.

An elderly pensioner has been identified as the man responsible for poisoning two pet dogs, but his victims believe his offending is ''just the tip of the iceberg''.