Timothy Brown

A man police were hoping to speak to in regards to the search for missing tourist Christine Lenicker has been identified.

As dawn broke on Anzac Day, blood-red clouds coloured the sky over Otago Harbour, illuminating the path Otago's sons travelled - many to their deaths - more than a century ago.

Changes have been made to Dunedin policing after the deaths of Bradley and Ellen Livingstone.

The police prosecutor in charge of Edward Livingstone's second protection order breach has conceded mistakes might have been made in the way police handled the case.

Organisers are staying tight-lipped on the future of the Hyde St keg party after a St John vehicle was attacked, a dozen party-goers were arrested and dozens more required medical attention at the event.

Six Dunedin students are lucky to be alive after their car was torn apart in a horrific crash.

Police have today suspended the in-water search for missing Invercargill boy, Mike Zhao-Beckinridge and his stepfather, John Beckenridge.

A credit card scam has been uncovered in Queenstown.

The Gore nurse at the centre of New Zealand's first Ebola scare is awaiting the results of a second test to show she is clear of the deadly disease.

Three Hells Angels members were grounded yesterday after becoming aggressive with Air New Zealand staff over their gang patches.

The 21-year-old accused of murdering Dunedin student Virginia Ford will reappear in court on April 15.

A possible 1080 contamination scare was discovered by supermarket workers in Dunedin last night.

Up to $300,000 of cannabis has been kept off the street after the annual police drug raid.

An engine issue grounded a Christchurch bound flight at Dunedin International Airport yesterday, but Air New Zealand has kept tight lipped about the problems.

The Taieri Communities Facilities Trust hopes the wider Dunedin community will support its push for a new aquatics centre in Mosgiel.

The Southern district is safe despite a 44% increase in sexual assaults last year, police say.

A decline in student rolls led by an almost 10% drop in domestic first-year students is ''by no means a disaster'', the University of Otago says.

The first ''exciting'' steps in the $2 million redevelopment of the Z service station in Green Island have been taken.

An ''ignorant'' and ''dim'' vandal has driven a car through the Dunedin Botanic Garden, causing at least $1000 damage and destroying a 12-year-old rhododendron.