A Dunedin family has received an apology from the Dunedin City Council after it euthanised the family's beloved pet dog.

A 36-year-old man from the United States was taken to Dunedin Hospital in a critical condition after a crash on Great King St North early this morning.

A legally blind man suffered severe injuries and emotional harm after being struck by a bus driven by a "distracted" driver, a judge says.

Left leaning political commentator and academic Bryce Edwards has pulled out of Otago University's Vote Chat online politics show over concerns the programme is now dominated by National Party supporters.

An unlicenced 16-year-old Dunedin youth is in hospital with a serious head injury after fleeing police in a high-speed pursuit.

The learner driver in a crash that killed a young Mosgiel brother and sister is alleged to have previously offered illegal taxi rides via a controversial Facebook page.

Dangerous black ice is expected on southern roads tomorrow morning, and drivers are being urged to take extreme care.

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.

'Some muppet has failed to determine his background,' says the Dunedin man who believes a hunter put a stray bullet in his deck.

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.

The Duke and Duchess are in the South Island today where they will taste wines, and ride on a jet boat.

The tragic deaths of two children shot by their father could have been prevented if NZ and Australian police shared information on earlier criminal convictions.

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.