Firefighters in Dunedin are tackling a fire in a unit, which is threatening properties next door.

A 21-year-old student has been critically injured jumping off the roof of a two-storey house at a large Dunedin flat party.

The owner of three Irish wolfhounds that mauled a woman in Dunedin late last year has been sentenced to community work and must pay $8000 reparation.

Car driven by a 26-year-old man causes extensive damage to Spotlight store.

A Dunedin mother is "heartbroken'' after a memorial to her son who died last year was trashed and some of his ashes stolen.

SPCA Otago posted an SOS to its 7000 Facebook followers late this afternoon after it was told by an elderly couple they could not remember where they parked their car.

A Dunedin woman who found breast cancer a great motivator to chase her ambition of being a film-maker is working on films in New York and Hollywood.

Southern District Health Board internal memo reveals patients have lashed out over poor quality meals.

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

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.

Ethical investment has come with a price tag of more than $380,000 for a council fund.

The concert where a balcony collapsed injuring 18 people should never have been held at student flats, Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.

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

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.

Dunedin's wasps have struck again, resulting in a school camp being called off and leaving some children "traumatised''.

Up to 12 headstones have been pushed, pulled or kicked over in Dunedin cemetery.

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.