Police are investigating a New Zealand gang’s involvement in a scam in which an elderly Dunedin woman had her bank account drained over a seven-hour period.

A rugby player was in "excruciating pain" as he waited for an ambulance at a Dunedin sports ground for more than an hour as a busy Hato Hone St John prioritised other jobs.

Forbury Park’s biggest neighbour say they have no definite idea about what should be done with the large, largely vacant land next door.

Sea lion pups are being brought to Otago Peninsula nurseries later this year than in the past and several mothers have eluded Department of Conservation staff trying to keep track of the species’...