The body of a woman found beside the St Clair piles yesterday has yet to be identified, police say.

An elderly woman's body was found by a man walking his dog on one of Dunedin's popular beaches early this morning.

A month after his marriage fell apart, Edward Livingstone had moved about 70km south of his family - a wife he was barred from contacting and children he could see only under supervision.

The death in Dunedin of two young children at the hands of their father sent David Fisher in search of a monster. He found something more unsettling - a man.

The children of a Dunedin man killed by one punch are pleased his death is helping to prevent similar acts of violence.

A Dunedin solo mother is disappointed after Aoraki Polytechnic cut a course she was signed up to start next week, but neglected to inform her.

A flat of boys has picked up a year's sponsorship and now the University of Otago students are trying to work out how to consume their weekly 2.5kg allocation of Pic's Really Good Peanut Butter.

It was meant to be a leisurely float down a river. But two men needed rescuing overnight after their lilos ran out of deep water and they ended trudging down a riverbed.

A conman jailed for defrauding church-goers of $853k in a Nigerian oil scam has the 'delusional view' the scheme will 'deliver up riches'.

A runaway calf on Dunedin's Southern Motorway sparked a pursuit involving six police cars before officers cornered the beast and "jumped on it".

A 41-year-old Dunedin man was yesterday found guilty on seven of nine charges alleging sexual offending against three women in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

Fraudsters have fleeced thousands of dollars from Dunedin's Chinese business community, police warn.

It was 2.45am, a week since a double shooting in the big city and Richard Mathias heard gunshots. He didn't expect his 111 call to police would elicit this response.

A Dunedin man who falsified his Facebook profile to contact a teenage boy for sex offending has been jailed for three years.

An evening out with friends went from bad to worse for a 20-year-old Dunedin man.

A service to remember slain Dunedin children Bradley and Ellen Livingstone tomorrow will be a bright and colourful celebration of their lives.

A Dunedin state housing tenant and the SPCA want Housing New Zealand to reconsider its dog policy.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull yesterday compared anti-fluoride campaigners to people who believe they have been abducted by aliens.

Housing New Zealand has rejected claims it has a new plan to evict dogs from state homes.

The mother of Bradley and Ellen Livingstone has expressed her gratitude for the support she has received from the public following the violent deaths of her children.

A Dunedin man who lost control behind the wheel near Golden Bay this morning has been airlifted to hospital.

'I'm a grown woman - I feel discriminated against.' Housing NZ is tightening the leash around allowing dogs in state houses, and tenants are unimpressed.