Otago

A man who waited four-and-a-half months for urgent scan at Dunedin Hospital to check whether his cancer had returned now has a terminal diagnosis. Audio

A Dunedin teenager who bludgeoned his mother to death with a 10kg dumbbell has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of 10 years behind bars.

A 57-year-old man is facing an arson charge after the fire in the vacant property last Friday.

Students of an Oamaru school on a school camp were forbidden from calling their parents after a group of pupils and staff went missing overnight.

One person has died after a house fire in the Dunedin suburb of Andersons Bay.

Police have confirmed no one died in a large fire at a derelict house in Dunedin on Friday.

Homeless people are being interviewed by police amid fears squatters may have been trapped in a derelict boarding house that went up in flames.

Plans for what would be one of New Zealand's largest wind farms, located between Clinton and Balclutha, were made public this week.

However, National is promising to put a stop to the renewable energy reservoir in its first 100 days in office.

Police say one person died in a single vehicle crash in Otago on Wednesday afternoon.

Moana Theodore will take over the long-running research project, following the death of former director Richie Poulton. Audio

Otago hobby gold miners say proposed water rules aimed to protect waterways will put costly red tape in their way.

Concerns have been raised after revelations the husband of a Catlins school principal is a convicted sex offender.

More than $12,000 has been donated towards an Oamaru artist and his family who lost their home in a suspicious fire.

A Dunedin boy is on a mission to get direct international flights taking off at Dunedin Airport again.

Sir Tim Wallis the founder of one of New Zealand's biggest airshows, and an aviator and deer farmer, has died aged 85. Audio

Polly Riddell's mother - a retired judge - said Carl Longshaw's sentence was expected but it was not justice.

Former Wānaka man and artist Topher Straus went from swimming in the Mediterranean to running for an air shelter within hours of arriving in Israel last weekend.