Otago

Police are appealing for information after a man was stabbed in Dunedin on 7 October.

A man behind a highly sophisticated cannabis cultivation of nearly 1000 plants has had two years slashed off his sentence.

Central Otago fruit growers are stressed about a polar blast which brought snow to sea level elsewhere in the south.

A second cold front is forecast to bring fresh snow to sea level in Dunedin and Christchurch tonight, with up to 20cm expected to fall on higher parts of Banks Peninsula.

A qualified neurosurgeon could be lost to the South, after Lucas Rakasz failed to convince a district court judge to immediately accredit him to work in this country.

Waitaki Boys' High School's grounds are being swallowed by the sea, with up to a metre and a half now lost each year.

A Central Otago inflatable water park may not be able to open this summer due to a clash over road safety.

Investigations into the disappearance of Moana, who has not been seen since December and whom police believe has been murdered, are ramping up this week.

Tourists in Queenstown arrived before the workers did this winter - putting businesses on high alert.

A scrub fire started by a burning car coming down from the Remarkables near Queenstown has now been contained.

There were more than 600 jobs on offer in Queenstown at a recruitment event last night but only roughly 100 prospective employees to fill the vacancies.

Dunedin City Council is calling for the return of passenger rail in the south.

The Dunedin City Council is considering supporting an inter-regional passenger rail service connecting Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill.

Three helicopters with monsoon buckets are fighting a blaze in Cardrona in Otago.

State Highway 85 in Otago has reopened on Friday night after weeks of closure to improve drainage and prevent further slips.

The airport plans to meet growing demand for air travel without expanding its current noise boundaries.

With freak flooding events increasing in frequency, Central Otago's mayor is pushing for a rethink on wastewater disposal and questioning whether it should be discharged into waterways.

Six cultural artefacts of Indigenous Australians held in an Otago museum will be returned more than a century after they were taken.

The two men were arrested after allegedly attempting to take drugs off a ship docked at Port Chalmers in Dunedin.

A vintage train group in Oamaru says its future is under threat if it is made to relocate by the local council.