Residents in parts of Dunedin are being told to stay indoors due to smoke from a fire at a rubbish tip.

An English consulting firm will receive more than $150,000 for work that includes running "listening sessions'' for the Southern DHB.

A raging solar storm has given way to a glorious array of lights in the skies above the lower South Island.

The collapse of a Castle St balcony earlier this year was due to overloading, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has found.

All voters in Dunedin will be able to vote for all councillors in this year's elections, after the Local Government Commission yesterday scrapped the city's ward system.

Man accused of stabbing and bashing his mother, and then sending a text message with the words "LOL", can now be named.

The founder of Emerson's Brewery has unveiled his latest gear for dispensing his beer - a 1974 Morris Mini 1000, otherwise known as (you guessed it), The Mini Bar.

A man has been charged with murder after the death of a woman in rural Otago.

Todd Treweek has been hit with $1000 fines over two years for blocking his own unused driveway - and council says it won't stop.

A young Dunedin man who threatened to send pictures of his 16-year-old former girlfriend naked to her mother has been prosecuted.

A young Dunedin family has been left homeless after fire destroyed their rented Ravensbourne property yesterday.

Dunedin's small Myanmar community is buzzing after one of their own went from working at an Otago freezing works to being sworn in as second vice-president.

Health Minister bows to pressure to taste test controversial new meals at Dunedin Hospital.

Bunnings management has "put its foot down'' and forced its Dunedin staff to gift the store's defibrillator to a community group.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is calling on the Government to rethink freedom camping legislation, after a season in which large crowds overwhelmed sites and stretched facilities.

Dunedin Police would like to hear from anyone who saw a car narrowly avoid colliding with a bus before crashing into a parked car in Glenleith.

A Dunedin school principal critically injured in a cycling crash has had a Givealittle page set up to support the family.

The 2016 Hyde St party was low-key affair marked less by its saturation of scandal and more by its population of "good people and good times", as reveller James Gibson puts it.

Volunteers have started the massive task of cleaning up Dunedin's Hyde Street after the annual student party, held yesterday.

Dunedin residents are being told to remove couches from their porches ahead of the annual Hyde St Party today.

A man has serious head injuries after falling from a balcony in the Dunedin student area last night.

Frustrated homeowners in Dunedin are still fighting to pick up the pieces, nine months after last year's $30m flood.

Pledges flow for student who suffered spinal injuries after balcony collapse at Six60 concert in Dunedin.

A Givealittle page has been set up for a student who suffered spinal injuries after a balcony collapsed on top of her at a Six60 concert in Dunedin.

Fourteen people have been injured, eight badly, after a balcony collapsed in Dunedin during a concert.

The death of a young man in 2011 is being used as an example on a hard-hitting DVD that will be played to drink-drivers before they are sentenced.

Carla Green takes a deep dive into the student psyche by spending a couple days immersed in Yik Yak.