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.

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.

An elderly woman's body was found by a man walking his dog on one of Dunedin's popular beaches early this morning.

A month after his marriage fell apart, Edward Livingstone had moved about 70km south of his family - a wife he was barred from contacting and children he could see only under supervision.

The death in Dunedin of two young children at the hands of their father sent David Fisher in search of a monster. He found something more unsettling - a man.

The children of a Dunedin man killed by one punch are pleased his death is helping to prevent similar acts of violence.

A Dunedin solo mother is disappointed after Aoraki Polytechnic cut a course she was signed up to start next week, but neglected to inform her.

Police have warned students and other O-Week revellers that anyone involved in lighting fires will be put before the courts.

The deliberate slashing of 12 tyres on airport shuttle vans has raised suspicion about a taxi war in Dunedin.

A flat of boys has picked up a year's sponsorship and now the University of Otago students are trying to work out how to consume their weekly 2.5kg allocation of Pic's Really Good Peanut Butter.

It was meant to be a leisurely float down a river. But two men needed rescuing overnight after their lilos ran out of deep water and they ended trudging down a riverbed.