All voters in Dunedin will be able to vote for all councillors in this year's elections, after the Local Government Commission yesterday scrapped the city's ward system.

Man accused of stabbing and bashing his mother, and then sending a text message with the words "LOL", can now be named.

The founder of Emerson's Brewery has unveiled his latest gear for dispensing his beer - a 1974 Morris Mini 1000, otherwise known as (you guessed it), The Mini Bar.

A man has been charged with murder after the death of a woman in rural Otago.

Todd Treweek has been hit with $1000 fines over two years for blocking his own unused driveway - and council says it won't stop.

Ethical investment has come with a price tag of more than $380,000 for a council fund.

The concert where a balcony collapsed injuring 18 people should never have been held at student flats, Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.

A young Dunedin man who threatened to send pictures of his 16-year-old former girlfriend naked to her mother has been prosecuted.

A young Dunedin family has been left homeless after fire destroyed their rented Ravensbourne property yesterday.

Bunnings management has "put its foot down'' and forced its Dunedin staff to gift the store's defibrillator to a community group.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is calling on the Government to rethink freedom camping legislation, after a season in which large crowds overwhelmed sites and stretched facilities.

Dunedin Police would like to hear from anyone who saw a car narrowly avoid colliding with a bus before crashing into a parked car in Glenleith.

A Dunedin school principal critically injured in a cycling crash has had a Givealittle page set up to support the family.

Dunedin's wasps have struck again, resulting in a school camp being called off and leaving some children "traumatised''.

Up to 12 headstones have been pushed, pulled or kicked over in Dunedin cemetery.

The 2016 Hyde St party was low-key affair marked less by its saturation of scandal and more by its population of "good people and good times", as reveller James Gibson puts it.

Volunteers have started the massive task of cleaning up Dunedin's Hyde Street after the annual student party, held yesterday.

A man has serious head injuries after falling from a balcony in the Dunedin student area last night.

Frustrated homeowners in Dunedin are still fighting to pick up the pieces, nine months after last year's $30m flood.

Pledges flow for student who suffered spinal injuries after balcony collapse at Six60 concert in Dunedin.

A Givealittle page has been set up for a student who suffered spinal injuries after a balcony collapsed on top of her at a Six60 concert in Dunedin.

Fourteen people have been injured, eight badly, after a balcony collapsed in Dunedin during a concert.

The death of a young man in 2011 is being used as an example on a hard-hitting DVD that will be played to drink-drivers before they are sentenced.

Carla Green takes a deep dive into the student psyche by spending a couple days immersed in Yik Yak.

Raucous couch-burning students in Dunedin have accidentally set a house on fire during their partying.

How a fleet of likely stolen cars ended up in a stretch of remote bush near Dunedin is likely to remain a mystery.

Police were not in a position to release details about the the death at Second Beach.

An Independent Police Conduct Authority investigation has criticised the initial police response to the 2005 death of Dunedin teenager Nicholas Munro.