Otago

A new report has found the region's unharvested fruit loss was estimated at 8.6 percent, while harvested fruit that was not sold amounted to 4.2 percent.

Council hopes webinars will aid the diversification of the district's economy.

Police are appealing for information after a courtesy van was taken and its driver assaulted in Central Otago earlier today.

In the midst of the pandemic, Larnach Castle's 150th celebration faced an unusual quandary - not enough brains.

Police are investigating how a man breached lockdown by travelling from Whangārei to Queenstown via Wellington without the necessary travel documents.

A 43-year-old woman has been charged with murder after a body was found at a Dunedin property today.

The 35-seater electric bus is ultimately destined for Christchurch, but for the next month, it will be running up and down the hills of Dunedin.

Christchurch Airport's Tarras farmland can support an international airport, an investigation has found.

A section of central Dunedin is closed after a suspicious package was found this morning at the Community Corrections office.

The South's vaccination rollout has hit top gear, and the region leads the country in numbers of people who have had the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine.

The school holidays are just around the corner but some parts of the country are expecting to miss out on an influx of visitors from Auckland.

Three charges of assault against All Black Shannon Frizell have been dismissed after the 27-year-old completed police diversion.

Jim Boult wants to know what police will be doing to avoid another breach of lockdown rules and potential spread of Covid-19 in the local community.

Final year Otago medical students analysed data from 4200 visits at 64 locations around Dunedin between 18 July and 1 August and found people were only scanning in nine percent of the time.

A group of female university students were walking along Cumberland Street when they were attacked by a group of up to six youth offenders, police said.