Dunedin police are appealing to the public for help to find a missing 15-year-old girl.

Wanaka man died in ambulance while being transported from Dunstan Hospital to another.

​Witnesses saw heat from flames smashing windows and smoke billowing from the roof.

Inquiry is under way after two people die in Dunedin flat blaze.

Woman has spoken of helping a man to safety in a house fire which claimed two lives.

The car crashed off a railway overbridge and plunged down a bank.

Impaled man sent to Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries

Release granted subject to strict conditions, including curfew and electronic monitoring.

MetService says Dunedin Airport recorded a temperature of 35C today - a new record.

Deaths of guide and his four clients in 1980 led to building of a new hut beside glacier.

Teacher went to a funeral not realising she had left a 4-year-old girl in the van.

Teenica Harrex suffered extensive injuries after a motorbike crash in Bali.

After a heavy drinking session he headbutted his Dad in the face.

Otago University excludes group after vomiting and head shaving occurred during initiation

Like a scene out of Minority Report, police down south are door-knocking offenders.

Officers are being forced to listen to NWA and Rage Against the Machine.

"Mostly they've been not threatening ... but occasionally I get a bit freaked out": Owner

A sea lion mother raises her family in a Dunedin family's backyard.

"You wonder if it's just idiots with guns for Christmas".

Sheep and cattle shot and left for dead.

About 200 people have fallen ill after a significant gastro outbreak on a cruise ship.

Japanese doctor accused of causing Boxing Day crash in Lindis Pass is allowed to fly home.

Joy and Graeme Atkinson have learned that kindness goes a long way.

All Bowie wanted was a rabbit - instead he spent a hungry night alone.

Police want to speak to couple who fled scene of fire that razed historic homestead.

The rise of New Zealand family-run gaming company RocketWerkz.

New Zealand's notoriously fickle weather will behave for most tomorrow night.

Men would still be alive if not for 'incredibly' high speed of driver, inspector says.

Pensioner Warren McKenzie was stabbed in the chest 3mm from a major artery.

Four people have been injured in a car pile-up in Dunedin Central this afternoon.