A 55-year-old man has been seriously injured after an assault at a Green Island property.

A person was in Dunedin Hospital overnight after they were hit in the head with a baseball bat at the weekend.

Fire investigators are looking into the suspicious circumstances of a large blaze in Dunedin overnight.

The huge death toll from asbestos-related diseases in New Zealand will continue to rise for decades.

The 19-year-old son of a New Zealand rich-lister has admitted hitting a female police officer - more than a year after the attack occurred.

Masked men raid Dunedin petrol station.

A speeding car smashed through a shop window before fleeing the scene in Dunedin last night, according to a witness.

First person to lose their life over holiday weekend was passionate about 1937 Ford Cabriolet convertible.

The Dunedin house that was used in the iconic cult film Scarfies has had a complete makeover and is now up for sale

Dunedin's "dire'' housing situation is forcing some at-risk youth to engage in prostitution to get a place to sleep, or to sleep rough in cars.

A man who assaulted two cyclists in separate incidents in Dunedin has been jailed.

Member of Dunedin Mongrel Mob Notorious used $20,000 from anti-violence trust to buy cannabis.

Teenage girl hid in a Dunedin public toilet after she was spooked by a man who made "inappropriate sexual comments" to her, police say.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the fire at Six60's former flat which forced a man to jump from a window to safety at the weekend.

Appeals are being made for information regarding a dairy robbery in Dunedin.

A "chubby" thief dropped five-dollar notes all over the floor as he made off on foot after robbing a Dunedin dairy armed with a screwdriver.

Baby girl bitten in face by family pet in Dunedin yesterday 'progressing favourably' in hospital.

A 44-year-old man who stabbed his former partner to death using a combination of knives and a spade has been denied parole.

Gareth Lawrence Smither stabbed his former partner to death in 1997 using a combination of knives and a spade.

Dunedin resident Hayden Smith is "shocked'' he will have to foot the bill for repairs to a retaining wall damaged by last June's downpour.

A volunteer fireman, paged to attend a car fire, was shocked when he stepped out of his house and realised it was his own vehicle ablaze.

Saturday's match was always going to be an uphill battle but no one expected wheels to come off a Dunedin premier club rugby team quite so spectacularly.

An unbelievably one-sided Dunedin premier rugby game was ended in mercy yesterday. One of NZ's greatest whistle-blowers suspects it's a world first.

A young woman had to fight her way free from an attempted abduction in Dunedin yesterday afternoon.

A man is understood to have died in a house fire in South Otago this morning.

Dunedin parking officers will trial wearing a video camera from today in an effort to improve their safety.

A United States game developer will use his experience working on some of the world's biggest games to help an ambitious Dunedin studio make global blockbusters.

Dunedin police are investigating a stabbing outside a nightclub in the city last night.