She still thinks of them every day. Katharine Webb has penned a touching memoriam for her two children, killed at the hands of their father.

A driver who stole a car and drove it 28km at speeds of up to 160kmh told police he didn't stop, because he had no licence and had been drinking.

Two men employed by a high school in Otago have been ordered to repay the school's board following a Novopay error.

''It's pretty disappointing and done by a sick mind," says a man who discovered dozens of pieces of barbed wire across an accessway to a Dunedin beach.

Sarah Lang gets on her bike for her health – and a slice of history.

A total fire ban is across Otago as authorities warn of extreme risk of a major blaze which could take weeks to put out.

As temperatures soar above 30C across parts of the country, so has demand for firefighters as tinder-dry conditions create the perfect environment for forest and scrub fires.

Police are investigating after an elderly Dunedin couple was found dead in their home this morning.

Justine Tyerman cycles to Paradise ...

Tears and laughter shared centre stage as Rachel Clark's grieving family remembered a special girl taken too soon.

Mike Rankin counts himself lucky, despite his new truck plummeting over a bank at his Caversham home.

The Cromwell community is reeling in shock at the sudden death of a 17-year-old who was recognised as a young leader with huge potential.

A taxi firm boss whose driver was racially insulted by an off-duty Queenstown policewoman says the company is relieved she has resigned.

A police officer who racially abused a taxi driver in Queenstown last year has resigned.

Silver Fern Farms faces a bill of up to $3 million after it was ruled it made more than 100 Dunedin seasonal meat workers redundant.

A surge in the supply of methamphetamine is being pushed by gangs on a "willing market" in the south, police say.

An osteopath who left electric acupuncture needles in a patient's backside while he went to a cafe for sausage rolls has been found to have discredited his profession.

Dunedin motorists were stunned to see a man sitting on a couch and holding on to the rear of a moving car as it left a trail of sparks behind him.

A former Dunedin student and aspiring model has been jailed for four years on drugs charges.

A Hong Kong couple escaped injury yesterday afternoon when their rental vehicle left the road and plunged about 50m down a bank on the Queenstown-Glenorchy Rd.

A male and female constable were attacked in Dunedin's CBD and police say it shows why the city's bars need to close earlier.

A Kiwi researcher is studying how children exercise restraint from tempting lollies - and what it says about their likely self-control later in life.

Two men wanted in relation to an alleged kidnapping in Queenstown last week have been remanded in custody.

Queenstown police have located the third person wanted in connection with an alleged kidnapping.

The father of a Queenstown woman caught up in an investigation into an alleged kidnapping has called for her safe return.

Friends and family have paid tribute to the man killed in a tractor accident near Waikouaiti earlier this week as a "hell of a good guy".

A 68-year-old woman who died after slipping and falling about 40m from a walking track near Wanaka has been identified as Maureen Anne Schofield.