The annual Jaffa Race is taking place today on Dunedin's Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is vowing to defend a $500,000 defamation claim, after being served with legal papers while walking down the street yesterday.

To celebrate 75 years of women in the police force, Westport News speaks to a former officer and another still on the beat.

Former NBA player Yao Ming towered over Dunedin Railways staff during a visit to the city on his New Zealand holiday. The 2.29m tall

A hunter who got lost and spent two nights in freezing conditions in the Blue Mountains has vowed to return to the area for some unfinished business.

Silver Fern Farms has warned shareholders that it now expects to only break-even in the current financial year.

A striking photograph taken from a Nasa flying observatory at a height of 44,000ft shows the extent of light pollution caused by a NZ's city's street lights.

A Dunedin runanga says freedom campers are dumping human waste on its burial grounds.

Kiwi kid Corey Symon has vowed to learn to play the cello after fitting his bionic arm for the first time yesterday.

A speeding car crashed off a Dunedin motorway while its driver was fleeing from police tonight.

A forensic team is inspecting a unit in Dunedin as police investigate the unexplained death of a man.

A checkout supervisor was "shaking" as she put a winning Lotto ticket barcode to the scanner. The machine beeped and the screen read $13.36 million.

Staff at playcentre in Dunedin frustrated at the destruction of a vegetable garden they and their pupils have been cultivating for the past 18 months.

Police are investigating a house fire in Te Anau and a car fire in Dunedin, both believed to be suspicious.

Floods and ice around New Zealand are hitting school holiday travel plans.

A 2-month-old baby who already had multiple broken bones was shaken so hard by her father she will be permanently disabled, the court was told yesterday.

A 30-year-old man will appear in Dunedin District Court tomorrow morning over an alleged sex assault on a man.

Two surfers have been rescued after getting into trouble off Smaills Beach in Dunedin this morning.

Footage of fire fighters battling a car fire overnight in Dunedin has emerged.

When Richard Emerson sold his small Dunedin brewery to national giant Lion four years ago it took him well out of his comfort zone.

An armed robbery took place at a Dunedin TAB tonight on the same street of an armed service station robbery two weeks ago.

A man wearing women's clothing, carrying a jacket and handbag, was sexually assaulted by another man.

Dunedin drivers are being asked to take care on icy roads this morning.

The trial of a man accused of murdering a woman at Seacliff, near Dunedin, is likely to take place early next year.

Attempted murder trial scheduled for February.

Dredging of shipping canal leads to explosive discovery.

The biggest All Blacks selection decisions will be the make-up of their midfield and the right balance to strike in their back three.

Ahead of his big chance at No10 tomorrow, Beauden Barrett was deliberately economical with his words.

The man was taken to Dunedin Hospital by St John ambulance in a serious condition.

'This is a total learning curve for us,' say student association president after mature student rep's criminal past is revealed.