A man who knocked a prison officer unconscious earlier this year has had six months added to his sentence.

The threat caused by sea level rises means new homes in some coastal areas of Dunedin will have to be built up to 1.2m higher off the ground to reduce flood risks.

Members of the public helped police capture a man who threatened three pharmacy workers with a knife, tied them up and robbed the shop in Dunedin last night.

A man charged after a young mother was stabbed in the neck at her Dunedin home on Monday is now facing a charge of attempted murder.

Donations for the family of a cyclist killed outside Dunedin Hospital on Monday have reached $7500.

A cyclist run over by a stock truck outside Dunedin Hospital was a senior lecturer at the University of Otago's Faculty of Dentistry, a husband and father of two preschoolers.

A 21-year-old man has been arrested for the stabbing of a 26-year-old woman in her Dunedin home yesterday.

A woman who was attacked by an unknown male assailant in her Dunedin flat is "extremely lucky" to have survived the random act of violence, police say.

A woman fought off an attacker who punched and stabbed her in the neck at her Dunedin home before she managed to flee with her young daughter.

A male cyclist has been killed after being hit by a truck and trailer unit outside Dunedin Hospital this morning.

A community board member has criticised the "pathetic" response to a flash flood in Mosgiel that caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to shops on Saturday.

Police are hunting for a man who held up a Dunedin dairy at the weekend.

A gang member primarily responsible for the misappropriation of $20,000 of government funds for the gang to buy cannabis has been jailed for four years.

Te Puni Korkiri says it is happy with the performance of a Whanau Ora fund despite an evaluation which found $7.7 million has been distributed to families without the results being measured.

The grieving parents of Josh Tunnicliffe, who died last Sunday aged 27, have battled for a decade to fight their son's huffing addiction.

An early arrival disrupted wedding plans and saw the ceremony transferred to the Dunedin Hospital chapel.

Two co-educational secondary schools in Dunedin plan to cut teacher numbers as the fall in school-age children starts to affect the secondary sector.