An Auckland teen faces a raft of violence charges after he allegedly assaulted a university warden on Dunedin's infamous Castle St.

A quick-thinking fast-food worker extinguished a bus fire in Dunedin.

Hundreds of people in Auckland and Otago are being given preventive antibiotics

Law Society says any 19-year-old with no previous convictions would not have been jailed on the same charges.

On an insider tour of Dunedin's hidden treasures, Eleanor Ainge Roy discovers the other Edinburgh deserves a second glance.

COMMENT: I think we have a winner for Lawyer of the Year. The award goes to the wizard who side-stepped jail time for Nikolas Delegat.

The sentence given to Nikolas Delegat for assaulting a policewoman has been widely condemned.

A father and daughter pleaded guilty to incest when they appeared in the Dunedin District Court this afternoon.

A fisherman on a burning boat grounded the vessel on rocks before leaping to safety near Dunedin yesterday afternoon.

The female police officer punched in the face by the son of a rich-lister who escaped a jail sentence is still being helped by colleagues on her road back to work, 18 months after the attack.

Two men have been caught smuggling meth into Dunedin on a flight from the North Island.

An ambulance officer is being treated for moderate injuries after an ambulance hit ice and slid off the road on the Southern Motorway near Dunedin tonight.

A woman says she was left shaking by the "over-the-top" response from Dunedin police after she and her partner were rebuked for opening a drink mid-flight.

The grief-stricken partner of a Dunedin man killed in a car crash near Shag Point told the tourist responsible for the man's death that he has stolen her future.

The former CEO of the Kokiri Training Centre in South Dunedin has been found guilty of taking more than $114,000 from the non-profit Maori organisation.

The 15-year hospital food service contract with the Compass Group had to be renegotiated because so few DHBs had joined, it has emerged.

Mount Aspiring College's principal says the school will try to continue with business as usual.

Two 13-year-old schoolgirls 'had a scrap'' at McDonald's Restaurant in George St yesterday afternoon, police said.

Cattle mysteriously washed up on Dunedin beaches are a puzzle for local authorities.

Up to three dead cows have mysteriously washed up on a Dunedin beach this weekend.

A 1-year-old boy was flown to Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries after falling from the balcony of a house in Frankton Rd yesterday.

A 33-year-old Dunedin psychology student appeared in court in relation to a wild car ride which left a trail of destruction.

One person is in Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries after two cars collided shortly before 10pm on Tuesday night.

A 33-year-old Dunedin psychology student appeared in court yesterday in relation to a wild car ride which left a trail of destruction in Mornington.

Caroline Quirey looks like a normal 11-year-old but behind her smile the Dunedin school pupil is fighting a rare bone marrow disorder.

There are claims of theft, teabag rationing and poor treatment of staff at Woodhaugh Rest Home and Hospital in Dunedin.

An Otago Uni student who discovered four unknown women trashing his Hyde St flat yesterday says crime on the North Dunedin party street is "getting worse".

A new house and car are on the cards for a Dunedin couple who won $13.3 million in Lotto, at what must be New Zealand's luckiest Lotto outlet.

A bus driver's spontaneous detour has come to a unplanned halt at a hairpin turn in Dunedin's Northeast Valley.

A "very deserving" Dunedin couple claimed their $13.3 million Lotto ticket from a lucky South Dunedin store yesterday.