Otago

A five-year legal battle over two seized fishing boats has been batted back to the High Court for a new hearing.

The University of Otago says it will cost more than a million dollars to install 60 security cameras around North Dunedin.

Moteliers are dampening fears Dunedin cannot handle large crowds after the announcement of Ed Sheeran's concert date filled motels within hours. Audio

A gas cylinder that exploded on a cruise ship in Dunedin - killing a worker - had 75 percent of the metal corroded away, a report has found.

New homes in South Dunedin will have to be built up to a metre higher above the ground because of the area's 2015 flood.

A sobbing young Belgian woman tells a court she wonders if she's strong enough to face the future after a man she met in New Zealand almost drove her off a road.

Friendly bus drivers, growing vegetables in their garden and a welcoming community have helped a Syrian refugee family settle in to their new life in Dunedin.

Oamaru's council is to spend $900,000 doing up the town's historic courthouse so it can be leased back to the government.

A driver whose car crashed during a police pursuit in North Otago has been taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Residents opposed to Dunedin's first five-star hotel say it's not right their views will be blocked so tourists can have better ones.

Police in Otago are hunting for repeat offender Tony Ashley Gorrie, who they say is dangerous and should not be approached.

Passengers on Queenstown's Skyline gondola were left hanging in midair yesterday after a cabin dislodged from the conveyor system.

Dunedin health chiefs must do more to bolster the city's fragile neurosurgery service, the Labour Party says.