Police are at the scene after a body was found at Boulder Beach on the Otago Peninsula this afternoon.

Dunedin is about to begin an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at getting Aucklanders to move south.

Police have arrested a 56-year-old man in relation to an assault of a female cyclist on a Dunedin street.

The Dunedin City Council has suspended its contract with a Black Power leader after his arrest for dangerous driving.

A 20-year-old man accused of murdering Dunedin woman Karin Ann Ross has been remanded in custody following a court appearance.

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A 20-year-old man has been arrested with the murder of Dunedin woman Karin Ann Ross.

"I can confirm these cases are in no way linked to each other,'' Inspector Kelvin Lloyd, Acting Area Commander: Otago Coastal, said.

A female cyclist was accosted and punched by a man in a random attack in Dunedin over the weekend.

A Dunedin man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being trapped under a piano.

Police have released an identikit image of a man they are seeking in relation to the sexual assault of a woman in Dunedin's Ross Creek this week.

Dunedin City Council confirms it will be taking a prosecution against the owner of three Irish wolfhounds that savagely attacked a woman.

Police are investigating an unexplained death in Dunedin.

High-risk sex offender Darren Albert Jolly, who has been living in a flat in Dunedin, is back behind bars after being arrested by police earlier this week.

A University of Otago student came to the rescue of a Jack Russell left in a hot car.

A woman who shot and seriously wounded a man outside his home near Dunedin earlier this year has been convicted of attempted murder.

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A war is being waged between Dunedin secondary schools, which are estimated to be spending big money on marketing to attract pupils.

The Dunedin City Council has spent $36,000 sending chief executive Dr Sue Bidrose to leadership training courses at England's prestigious Oxford University.

An asbestos scare at Dunedin Hospital has affected access to the mortuary, ultrasound suite, two lifts, the central stairwell and staff-only areas.

She says science isn't there to back up University of Otago's ban on e-cigarettes.

A pair of brazen thieves stole car keys from a squash club changing room, used them to steal a car and then returned the next night to steal "cash and booze", police say.

An asbestos find at Dunedin Hospital has forced the cancellation of ultrasound outpatient appointments and closed the mortuary.

Labour's acting health spokesman David Clark has criticised Health Minister Jonathan Coleman for "dragging his heels" over the hospital's rebuild work.

An aggravated robbery in which a 59-year-old man was assaulted and left lying in an alleyway bleeding and semiconscious, brought jail for a 19-year-old man.

Dunedin police are seeking strong action against two repeat offender liquor outlets they say were caught selling alcohol to underage teens.

Train-spotters basked in an historic steam locomotive's glory as Passchendaele chugged into Dunedin Railway Station yesterday.

A Dunedin man has been given until November 10 to start removing rusting cars from his property, or face paying the cost of the council doing it for him.

Officers would prefer if you left suspected explosives where you found them.

A man injured in a hit-and-run incident in Dunedin at the weekend is thought to know the female driver of the car that struck him, police say.