Plans for a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin have been scrapped and the developers' partnership with the council has descended into acrimony.

The Duke and Duchess are in the South Island today where they will taste wines, and ride on a jet boat.

The tragic deaths of two children shot by their father could have been prevented if NZ and Australian police shared information on earlier criminal convictions.

A Dunedin mother is angry her car was ticketed while she was undergoing an emergency Caesarean section.

Police have been cleared over two pursuits which claimed the lives of five young people last year.

Multiple failings by police enabled two officers to lie and provide false evidence in the investigation of a central Otago car crash which was wrongly pinned on a teenager.

A student who admitted supplying Ritalin to other students in Dunedin has had his conviction and sentence quashed by the Court of Appeal.

The Dunedin City Council received 382 noise complaints last month - the highest since February 2010. Guess the Scarfies are back in town.

New Zealand's oldest tea company, Bell Tea, is set to shut its Dunedin factory next month, ending more than 100 years of tea production in the city.

A stag night booze request has landed a Dunedin duty bar manager in trouble with police - and may even cost him his licence.

A severely burnt Dunedin man wants to thank those who helped him as his skin melted following a 'freak accident'.

A radio station and Dunedin property owner are in hot water over the sponsorship of a student flat.

The body of a woman found beside the St Clair piles yesterday has yet to be identified, police say.

An elderly woman's body was found by a man walking his dog on one of Dunedin's popular beaches early this morning.

A month after his marriage fell apart, Edward Livingstone had moved about 70km south of his family - a wife he was barred from contacting and children he could see only under supervision.

The death in Dunedin of two young children at the hands of their father sent David Fisher in search of a monster. He found something more unsettling - a man.

A Dunedin solo mother is disappointed after Aoraki Polytechnic cut a course she was signed up to start next week, but neglected to inform her.

Police have warned students and other O-Week revellers that anyone involved in lighting fires will be put before the courts.

The deliberate slashing of 12 tyres on airport shuttle vans has raised suspicion about a taxi war in Dunedin.

A flat of boys has picked up a year's sponsorship and now the University of Otago students are trying to work out how to consume their weekly 2.5kg allocation of Pic's Really Good Peanut Butter.

It was meant to be a leisurely float down a river. But two men needed rescuing overnight after their lilos ran out of deep water and they ended trudging down a riverbed.

A conman jailed for defrauding church-goers of $853k in a Nigerian oil scam has the 'delusional view' the scheme will 'deliver up riches'.

A runaway calf on Dunedin's Southern Motorway sparked a pursuit involving six police cars before officers cornered the beast and "jumped on it".

A 41-year-old Dunedin man was yesterday found guilty on seven of nine charges alleging sexual offending against three women in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

Fraudsters have fleeced thousands of dollars from Dunedin's Chinese business community, police warn.