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Flatmate dispute sparks armed standoff

Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.

Jetboat driver to pay reparation to family

A jetboat driver has been fined and ordered to pay reparation to the family of a British tourist killed in a river boat crash in December 2008.

Glowing references help keep cops out of jail

Trimming the fat

Set to tour with new album <i>Form</i>, Dunedin noise punks Die! Die! Die! talk to Shane Gilchrist about how they've undergone a change of approach and label after a three-year hiatus.

Bike skirmish leads to charges

A slice of railway history up for sale

'Cycle rage' motorists say water squirted in window

Dunedin house blaze treated as suspicious

Helicopter fails to find missing Dunedin woman

<i>Eric Thompson:</i> Academy inferno really quite cool

Big weekend for Dunedin, but only one couch burns

Complaint over TV3 nude rugby game footage

Dunedin crowds at rugby in buff

<i>Wynne Gray:</i> No regrets but thanks for the memories, Carisbrook

Rugby writer Wynne Gray takes a nostalgic look at Carisbrook before the "quaint old arena" hosts its final All Blacks test this evening.

All Blacks: History is with the home team

Things are not the same down south. Carisbrook is in its death roll, the students' soakhole at the Gardies is closing...

Doomed pub closes doors a day early

A notorious student pub in Dunedin closed to avoid riotous farewell celebrations at tonight's All Blacks test match.