Elisabeth Easther pays our winter wonderland a visit.

Potentially life-saving technology, first trialled on Dunedin roads, is being installed throughout Otago in another world first.

An Otago teenager is lucky to have escaped serious injury after a fireball erupted when she was cooking in a Pine Hill house on Tuesday.

Two Dunedin youths have been arrested in relation to the theft and mutilation of a pet lamb in the city last month.

Friends helping an Alexandra teenager celebrate his 18th birthday took cover behind a wheelie bin when he became angry and kept reloading and firing his newly-bought airgun at them.

Otago Bowling Club members split more than $200,000 from the sale of grounds among themselves, instead of giving it to community interests.

Police are extremely concerned for the safety of an Oamaru man who was last seen late on Sunday night.

Sixty-four Dunedin manufacturing workers will have their working week reduced by a day, following KiwiRail's decision to award a manufacturing tender offshore.

Jude Nickolls was brought to tears again yesterday - this time by the kindness and generosity of strangers.

Josie Dale visits Macetown to recapture the atmosphere of the goldrush days.

One of Queenstown's top horsewomen was reduced to tears yesterday after discovering her two horses had their tail hair hacked off.

Police say a drunk teen alleged to have shot a friend in the knee had earlier aimed the gun at friends who were forced to take cover behind a wheelie-bin.

A psychiatrist who treated patients with the drug ketamine for depression was not carrying out research or experimental treatment, it's been found.

A drunk man is alleged to have mistakenly smashed his way into a Dunedin flat causing 'thousands' in damage and scaring the student residents.

A Clinton man whom a judge described as the "neighbour from hell" was lucky to avoid being held in contempt of court for his behaviour at a defended hearing.

Danielle Wright experiences cross-country skiing at Wanaka.

A fire which gutted the historic Aparima Tavern at Riverton yesterday spread "unbelievably quickly", a customer says.

Catherine Smith enjoys the high life with great views at Matakauri Lodge.

An Auckland man has appeared in court in Brisbane today charged with trafficking synthetic cannabis into Australia.

Homes with excessively smoking chimneys in Otago's high air pollution towns will be targeted in coming months and residents given a deadline to "clear the air" as the battle to improve air quality intensifies.

Justine Tyerman goes for a hoon up the Dart River.

Many of the landmarks of the fabled Dunedin Sound of the 1980s can be visited on a relatively short and intriguing walk.

A holiday wildlife tour ended in hypothermia for four young women kayaking near Taiaroa Head, in Otago, yesterday.

A van ended up in Otago Harbour after going off Portobello Rd at Edwards Bay yesterday.