Otago

An Otago juice company is investigating yet another way of reducing cherry waste - by freezing them.

Two people from the same company, travelling in two separate cars, died in a crash near Oamaru.

Gurjit Singh, who was last seen on Sunday night, had security concerns in the weeks prior to his death.

A sleepy sea lion using your clothes as a pillow is a problem few beachgoers face.

Police are treating the death as unexplained.

Police have set up cordons on Hillary Street in the northern suburb of Liberton.

Some parts of the South Island's West Coast received 200mm of rain overnight, and 300 homes near Dunedin Airport have been without power.

Shoppers could be buying contaminated food from a Dunedin supermarket grappling with a rat problem, employees say.

Heritage advocates say they are seeing the most significant threat to homes and other buildings in decades.

A new exhibition warning young people about the risks of smoking and vaping is now timelier than ever, Tūhura Otago Museum says.

Hundreds of thousands of viewers have watched this year's Royal Cam albatross chick hatch on the Otago Peninsula.

Woolworths has confirmed a recent increase in "pest activity" at its Countdown Dunedin South store, with MPI now investigating. Audio

A proposed development has become a focal point for heritage advocates who say the city's history is being torn down and replaced by "insipid glass and steel".

A Dunedin motorist did not take too kindly to a cyclist squirting him with water after teaching him a lesson about his driving.

A young migrant who worked long hours for free at a Central Otago hospitality business says she felt "like a prisoner" during her nine months in the job.

Firefighters have now contained a four-hectare grass and scrub fire near Lake Benmore in the Upper Waitaki area of Otago.

A penguin is getting fattened up at its new temporary home after travelling thousands of kilometres to Aotearoa.

The wastewater entered the natural swamp after spilling over the top of an oxidation pond at the Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant on Monday.

A dad was attacked by a man from another car who objected to his baby being out late at night.