A machete, mallet and large wooden sticks were seized from dairy owners arming themselves against robbers targeting synthetic cannabis, Dunedin police allege.

There are fears Dunedin could lose out to Auckland as a result of proposed changes to the way the New Zealand Transport Agency allocates funding for roading projects.

The fight against the sale of synthetic cannabis in Gisborne has stepped up with the support of community leaders.

A holocaust survivor and one of the last remaining Jews to be saved by Oskar Schindler hopes her story can help prevent the horrors she witnessed happening again.

Thousands of dollars of synthetic cannabis was stolen in an aggravated robbery of a North Dunedin dairy last week, prompting concerns over potential health risks to users, police say.

A North Dunedin dairy was robbed by two knife-wielding offenders early this morning.

The Dunedin City Council has agreed to let bars to stay open for the first hour of Anzac Day so Aerosmith fans can have a nightcap after the band's gig at Forsyth Barr Stadium.

Pupils at a Dunedin special needs school are beginning to wonder if someone has it in for them.

A Secondary boarding school for senior Muslim boys in South Dunedin is now a certainty, with the sale of a former Roman Catholic school settled, and plans for the site to be developed are well under way.

Soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was all smiles yesterday as she viewed her likeness in a stained glass window at St Paul's Cathedral in Dunedin.

Drunk university students who set couches alight after being turfed out of parties are blaming police for inflaming tensions.

A good Samaritan was punched in the face and had his car stolen after assisting a man to escape a gang fight in Dunedin, police say.

It appears the 54-year-old man saved from his burning Dunedin flat on Monday night may have been rescued twice, by different people.

A Dunedin woman is being hailed as a hero after running into a burning City Council flat to pull a 54-year-old man to safety.

John Burrows Baird, 74, lived alone and, his neighbours said, kept to himself.

Headwear of all sizes, colours and styles stole the show at the official iD Dunedin Fashion Week launch.

Volunteers cleaning Dunedin's beaches for Sea Week were dismayed to find someone had been using the beach as a personal rubbish dump.

A man who sexually assaulted a young woman in a Dunedin park last September was on parole at the time from a lengthy prison sentence for serious sexual offending.

An autistic man was told ''go home to China'' in a racist verbal attack in central Dunedin this week.

Three men on a lunchtime surf off the coast of Dunedin saved a group of schoolgirls being swept away in a rip.

A man is in intensive care at Dunedin Hospital after he was hit by a car near Dipton last night.

Forsyth Barr Stadium is set for its biggest week yet, with more than 50,000 punters expected through the turnstiles this week.