Cell-tower data presented to a Dunedin court has raised questions over the location of a 21-year-old cleaner accused at the time of an alleged murder.

A new Queenstown house has become a local curiosity.

Re-elected community board member faces assault charge.

A woman is believed to be in a serious condition after a crash near St Leonards this afternoon.

Sales on the first charter flight from Dunedin to see the aurora australis are taking off and the trip's organiser is considering making the flight an annual event.

A man charged with arson after a house fire in the Dunedin suburb of Concord will apply for bail tomorrow.

Police say they have arrested a 55-year-old man and charged him with arson after a house fire last night.

A 21-year-old Dunedin cleaner accused of murdering his boss allegedly told a workmate he wanted to burn the victim's family in front of her.

The race to elect a new mayor for Auckland and other cities and towns round the country is drawing to a close.

The clothes an alleged murderer wore and the hammer he is accused of using to kill his boss looked unfamiliar to the defendant's parents.

At first she thought the body was a rubbish bag, mother of accused told the court today, before realising it was her colleague.

Diamond earrings worn by Gemma Flynn on the red carpet for fiance Richie McCaw's film sell for $2,510.

An 18-storey five-star hotel in the heart of Dunedin is a step closer to reality following the signing of an exclusive deal.

Two days after a Dunedin woman was found dead outside her workplace last December, the blood-soaked hammer allegedly used to bludgeon her was found in a bin outside a colleague's home.

A group of golfers playing through the mist at the St Clair Golf Club on Saturday morning came up against an unusual hazard.

A Dunedin cleaner beat his boss to death with a hammer because she had complained about his conduct at work, the Crown says.

An 11-year-old boy has been rushed to Dunedin hospital after falling almost four metres from a rope swing.

This will be a good weekend to check out the museum or cuddle up with a book as heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast for parts of the country.

A ChinesePhD student attacked his wife and threatened to send her back to China all because she did not refuel his car, a court has heard.

A knife-wielding man who paraded around in public with his shirt off, challenging people to fight him, has been jailed for nearly two years.

The Dunedin City Council faces a potentially protracted legal battle as New Zealand's supermarket giants join forces to fight the city's local alcohol policy.

A bus has crashed into three parked cars in Dunedin after the bus driver apparently left the handbrake off. A Fire Service shift

The man police are hunting in relation to an aggravated robbery in St Kilda last week is the son of one of the women arrested in the matter, it has been revealed.

An international student has avoided conviction for starting a nuisance fire, despite admitting lighting the blaze.

Psychology student was seen drinking from a bottle of wine while driving at speeds before crashing into three cars.

Burglars abseiled into a Dunedin building at the weekend, leaving a trail of destruction before stealing art supplies.

Four Queenstown men are lucky to be alive after their kayaks overturned and they were swept out to sea off the Otago coast.

A Dunedin youth advocate has hit out at Child, Youth and Family after young offenders have had to spend time in police cells.

Police were called to reports of disorder following a large student party in the Dunedin Botanic Garden yesterday.

In an "unprecedented" move, nurses from Timaru were drafted in to work at Dunedin Hospital for two days this week because of pressure on the hospital.