The weather system that brought heavy snow to Otago and Southland was this morning sitting just north of Christchurch and is heading up the country.

Nothing re-awakens the Scot inside you like the aroma of a smoky whisky, finds Peter Feeney.

Police did not coerce Joyce Conwell to confess to the shotgun murder of Alec Rodgers in Christchurch in 1999, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has ruled.

The names of a brother and sister killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin on Saturday night have been released.

The two people killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin last night were brother and sister, police say.

What is life like without a job for six months? It is a struggle, those at the coalface say.

A mother-of-three who hasn't been seen since 2002 may be the victim of foul play, police say, as they open a cold case inquiry into her disappearance.

More than 50 women have stayed at Night Shelter Dunedin since it stopped its men-only policy nine months ago.

Two Dunedin gangs - once at war - have come together to ask Dunedin's council to give them a contract mowing the city's grass.

A Dunedin woman says she has been waiting more than four years to have her state house insulated but contractors will not tackle it because of mould under the floor.

A Dunedin family of 13 is elated they'll no longer have to put up with sewage-contaminated water seeping into their property every time there's heavy rain.

A 25-year-old Dunedin man has been remanded in custody on a charge of assaulting a man who died after being found unconscious in a central city bar at the weekend.

Police are looking for three men who could be linked to a fatal assault in a Dunedin bar overnight.

A 19-year-old has died after the car he was in, which was carrying four others, crashed south of Dunedin early today.

Corstorphine House's history of accommodating royals and Hollywood actors may help attract global "A-listers" when the Dunedin property goes on the market for $3.8m.

Plans for a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin have been scrapped and the developers' partnership with the council has descended into acrimony.

A Dunedin mother is angry her car was ticketed while she was undergoing an emergency Caesarean section.

Police have been cleared over two pursuits which claimed the lives of five young people last year.

Multiple failings by police enabled two officers to lie and provide false evidence in the investigation of a central Otago car crash which was wrongly pinned on a teenager.

A student who admitted supplying Ritalin to other students in Dunedin has had his conviction and sentence quashed by the Court of Appeal.

The Dunedin City Council received 382 noise complaints last month - the highest since February 2010. Guess the Scarfies are back in town.

New Zealand's oldest tea company, Bell Tea, is set to shut its Dunedin factory next month, ending more than 100 years of tea production in the city.

A Dunedin man has changed his name to 'Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova' after losing a bet.

Police have apologised to a Dunedin man for an "unacceptable level of service" after officers failed to act on information identifying an alleged offender.

A stag night booze request has landed a Dunedin duty bar manager in trouble with police - and may even cost him his licence.

A severely burnt Dunedin man wants to thank those who helped him as his skin melted following a 'freak accident'.

A radio station and Dunedin property owner are in hot water over the sponsorship of a student flat.

The body of a woman found beside the St Clair piles yesterday has yet to be identified, police say.