Tuatara have hatched in the wild in the South Island for possibly the first time in several hundred years, experts say.

An 88-year-old man called up for jury service said he would probably have slept through most of the trial.

With the full name of Abergavenny Sunny, and a pedigree status as a seal tabby Birman, Sunny the cat is a creature of some dignity and grace.

Organisers are staying tight-lipped on the future of the Hyde St keg party after a St John vehicle was attacked, a dozen party-goers were arrested and dozens more required medical attention at the event.

Six Dunedin students are lucky to be alive after their car was torn apart in a horrific crash.

Some 4000 tickets were sold for the Hyde St keg party, an annual student blow-out known for its excessive alcohol consumption.

A dozen people were arrested and a man smashed an ambulance window, covering a paramedic in glass, at a Dunedin street party tonight.

A surfer will go anywhere to get a good wave. Even on a chilly Dunedin day.

A new traffic light at a Dunedin intersection - officially turned on just last month - was knocked over yesterday.

Two young men helped another man import thousands of dollars of illegal drugs by opening post boxes in false names, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.

Dunedin City councillor Lee Vandervis' aggression towards colleagues was slammed as unacceptable at a code of conduct hearing yesterday.

Massey University student Virginia Ford was allegedly murdered on Friday night by a 21-year-old man with whom she lived in Palmerston North.

A scene examination has been completed at the Dunedin house where a 24-year-old was found dead yesterday, police say.

The Dunedin Notorious Mongrel Mob is distancing itself from a plan to allow gang members to compete for the city's green space contracts.

A shopping company is being investigated over revelations some of its door-to-door staff regularly visit beneficiaries in a Dunedin boarding house.

The Notorious Mongrel Mob and Black Power could be coming to a lawn near you.

Dunedin police are refusing to disclose any detail about why a 51-year-old man was shot in Purakaunui last Friday.

The owner of a Dunedin petrol station used his inside knowledge to covertly steal thousands of litres of fuel from petrol retailers.

The Dunedin City Council's group debt has dropped by more than $25 million on the back of stronger results by its companies, new figures show.

The company running Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is promising a "completely different ball game" despite confirming another $1 million loss.

Two members of a defunct Dunedin bowling club have been made bankrupt after failing to return monies wrongfully taken by them.

An out-of-control party of up to 200 youths ended in fights and disorder in a Dunedin park on Saturday night.

A notorious party flat in central Dunedin could find itself dragged into an extension of the city's liquor ban after years of 'unacceptable' behaviour by its residents.

A man who raped a 16-year-old girl in the Dunedin Library car park after befriending her on Facebook has been sentenced to nine years and two months' jail.

''Everyone just ran and glass showered down on to the road.'' Exploding glass caused a shower of fragments onto Dunedin's main street yesterday.

Six overseas drivers have appeared in court over the past 24 hours after a series of crashes that have focused attention on tourist driving.

For the past 15 years, Glen Tily has got on bended knee and proposed marriage to the love of his life, Cathryn Herd.

Deliberately-lit property fires in Dunedin's student quarter could kill someone, a detective investigating the case warns.

'I just couldn't believe it.' Nineteen-year-old Kyle Thom was out with mates early yesterday when he was told his Dunedin flat was on fire.