The woman's black sedan appeared to have crossed the centre line before the crash.

Wild winds sweeping the country have caused serious disruption to flight schedules, caused power outages and closed roads this evening.

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.

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.

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.

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

An English consulting firm will receive more than $150,000 for work that includes running "listening sessions'' for the Southern DHB.

A raging solar storm has given way to a glorious array of lights in the skies above the lower South Island.

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.