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.

A runaway calf on Dunedin's Southern Motorway sparked a pursuit involving six police cars before officers cornered the beast and "jumped on it".

A 41-year-old Dunedin man was yesterday found guilty on seven of nine charges alleging sexual offending against three women in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

Fraudsters have fleeced thousands of dollars from Dunedin's Chinese business community, police warn.

The Dunedin City Council plans to sell surplus land and property over the next two to three years in a move expected to raise about $10 million.

One person was trapped in their vehicle after a two-car crash on the Northern Motorway, about 10km from Dunedin, this afternoon.

It was 2.45am, a week since a double shooting in the big city and Richard Mathias heard gunshots. He didn't expect his 111 call to police would elicit this response.

A Dunedin man who falsified his Facebook profile to contact a teenage boy for sex offending has been jailed for three years.

An evening out with friends went from bad to worse for a 20-year-old Dunedin man.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull yesterday compared anti-fluoride campaigners to people who believe they have been abducted by aliens.

Housing New Zealand has rejected claims it has a new plan to evict dogs from state homes.

The mother of Bradley and Ellen Livingstone has expressed her gratitude for the support she has received from the public following the violent deaths of her children.

A Dunedin man who lost control behind the wheel near Golden Bay this morning has been airlifted to hospital.

'I'm a grown woman - I feel discriminated against.' Housing NZ is tightening the leash around allowing dogs in state houses, and tenants are unimpressed.

The family of Edward Livingstone are shocked that the "bloody good bloke" they grew up with shot dead his young children before turning the gun on himself.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend Saturday afternoon's service for the two Dunedin children killed by their father.

The man who shot dead his two children in Dunedin before killing himself is understood to have taken the murder weapon from his former flatmate's gunsafe.

Doing donuts on a park in Dunedin is 'frowned upon' says police who charged an ex-Dunedin boy for cutting up park in his old home town.

Authorities missed many red flags before Bradley and Ellen Livingstone were killed by their father in their Dunedin home.