The Dunedin man was dismissed by Go Bus Transport after an undercover transport inspector spotted him allowing his wife to ride for free.

Police are seeking the ''senseless'' vandals who pillaged a Dunedin childcare centre.

Material from the sun, Earth's magnetic field, three clever fellows and a compost bin - put them together and you have a system outperforming Nasa.

A man has appeared in court today, following a police search of a home in Dunedin yesterday.

The Armed Offenders Squad assisted police in carrying out a search warrant at a house in Mornington at 4pm.

A man has been arrested after an overnight murder scare at a shearers' quarters in Milton.

An elderly Dunedin man who died after being hit by a car last night has been named by police. He was 86-year-old Albert Arthur Wolf, known as Bert, of Fairfield.

Police have slammed 17 Dunedin drivers for their "stupidity and poor judgement" after they were apprehended for drinking and driving over the weekend.

Police are investigating the death of an 86-year-old Dunedin man who was hit by a car in Fairfield, Dunedin last night.

Four people managed to escape a fire that completely destroyed their homes in Dunedin overnight.

These days, people are often being told ''There's no such thing as a free meal''. But yesterday, the old adage got turned on its head.

The victim of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her partner for almost a decade ''endured her own form of hell''.

Pacific Edge, the maker of non-invasive bladder cancer tests, has won US regulatory approval to commercially process test samples from its latest cancer detecting product at its Dunedin....

A Dunedin woman has been left $2500 out of pocket after a man she met online took advantage of her by telling her what she "wanted to hear".

Two people who came to the aid of a woman who was assaulted in Dunedin on Saturday are being asked to contact police.

A surge in flu-like illnesses has swept southern Dunedin schools in the past week, leaving hundreds of pupils at home and health clinics overrun with patients.

A cop has called for mobility scooters to be equipped with registration plates amid rising complaints from pedestrians about the scooters' mainly elderly drivers.

Police are still in the ''very early'' stages of the investigation into the crash that killed 18-year-old Nakita May Strange and it is unclear when charges will be laid.

The 18-year-old girl who died in a crash in central Dunedin yesterday morning was Nakita May Strange.

A driver involved in a Dunedin crash rushed to give CPR to a dying teenager who lay unconscious in the back seat of the other car.

A 6-year-old Dunedin boy was left crying on the footpath after he and his mother were not allowed to take his bike on an otherwise empty bus.

Emergency services were called to the scene near the entrance to the Dunedin Botanic Garden, on the corner of Great King St and North Rd.

About 75,000 Jaffas rolled down Dunedin's Baldwin Street during the fund-raising event in front of a crowd of 15,000.

There's been an Armed Offenders Call out in Calton Hill in Dunedin.

“This is a chance to be part of history and show the team how proud we are of them,” says Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull.

A man has been charged with murder after a young woman was killed in Dunedin on Friday.

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead in a Dunedin home last night.

Police were called to the scene about 6.30pm on Friday night. A 22-year-old man has been arrested in relation to the incident.