The continuing obstinacy of courts, police and government is thankfully no match for the determination of Joe Karam, writes Sir Bob Jones.

The green waste dumped and leaching into Dunedin's urban streams is "offensive" and endangering the brown trout, Fish & Game says.

A truck driver was trapped in his vehicle when it crashed on Lindis Pass early this morning, blocking the major Otago highway for several hours.

Otago's Courtney Duncan is still beating up the boys, even though she reckons she's "not up to speed yet".

An Alexandra rest home resident who loved sweets choked to death on one of his favourites, Turkish Delight, the Alexandra Coroners Court heard.

Shedding staff cost the Dunedin City Council more than $600,000 in the last year, and more than half the money went to two senior managers.

An accounts manager who stole nearly $240,000 from the University of Otago was always warning his team to look out for fraud, a court has been told.

Greg McGee is the author of The Open Side, the biography of All Black captain Richie McCaw. He is also a literary gender bender: McGee

K2 is the most toxic and harmful of the synthetic cannabis products he has witnessed in patients, an emergency department specialist says.