Emergency services respond after a bus and car crashed in central Dunedin yesterday.

They collided at the intersection of Stuart and Smith Streets just before 4pm.

The Dunedin City Council admits the cost of the harbour cycleways project has risen significantly.

The initial forecast was 20 million dollars...but the revised figure is more than double the original estimate.

The American owner of the Scenic Hotel Group, Earl Hagaman, died at his Christchurch home today.

Hagaman bought his first hotel in Franz Josef in 1980 with partner Ralph Brown.

Nowadays the company owns a dozen hotels in New Zealand - including Dunedin's Southern Cross - and employs over a thousand staff.

One of Dunedin's longest serving train drivers has decided to make tracks.

After around three decades behind the control for the Taieri Gorge Railway, Tony Fricker is calling it a day.

Tourism Minister Paula Bennett admitted in Queenstown on Wednesday the Government is playing ''catch-up'' over infrastructure to cope with the tourist influx.

And after a meeting with Queenstown Mayor Jim Boult Wednesday afternoon Bennett told the media she is expecting another million tourists by 2022.

Dunedin police confirm one person is dead following a crash on the Southern motorway near Mosgiel on Tuesday morning.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has today announced the candidates for seats in Dunedin North and Dunedin South.

Peters made the announcement at Dunedin's Forbury Park Raceway before a Greypower meeting this morning.

Members of Dunedin's Syrian community have been going through English language courses to help them integrate into New Zealand life.

Although much of their learning is classroom based, many of their number took part in a field trip to see a very Kiwi slice of heaven.

One of Dunedin’s oldest schools will be rebuilt at a cost of $6,700,000 as part of the Government’s bid to modernise New Zealand’s school infrastructure.

Albatross fans who have followed a Dunedin chick online since it hatched in January are being given the opportunity to name the bird.

Dunedin police confirm one person is dead following a crash on the Southern motorway near Mosgiel this morning.

A good old-fashioned queue formed at the Regent Theatre booking office this afternoon.

About 50 people were trying, without the aid of a computer, to get their hands on tickets to one of British singer Ed Sheeran's two Dunedin concerts.

Tipping - sometimes we do it, most times we don't.

But now Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett has gone on record as saying we should.

Should tipping be made mandatory? The South Today took that question out onto the streets of Queenstown.

A South Dunedin school is hoping to share its passion for music with others for New Zealand Music Month.

Last week, pupils from Bathgate Park School put on a performance at Halfway Bush School, and plan to venture to the other side of the hill this week.

Paul Dee was killed on 28 April 2017 in an ATV side by side buggy roll-over, a stone’s throw from his Waihao Downs home, near Waimate.

Dunedin's teddy bears are receiving some much-needed TLC from University of Otago medical and dentistry students this week.

Clinic doors are open to bears all this week ahead of the University of Otago's annual Hospital Community Day this Saturday May 27.

Key findings of a just-released report from Otago Fish & Game, suggests South Otago streams still face major problems from sediment run-off caused by winter cropping practices.

Otago Fish & Game officials say sediment pollution damaged fish and other aquatic life have been a growing concern for a decade.

A Dunedin shoemaker is trying to cobble together the money she needs to get to Asia.

Lousie Clifton runs a shoeschool in Dunedin and has launched a crowdfunding campaign to make the pilgrimage back to shoe heaven in Japan.

Clifton says her career choice raised some eyebrows at first.

It was International Museum Day yesterday and to celebrate, Toitu opened some hidden treasures to the public.

When volunteer recruit firefighter Dayna Gallagher (17) lugged 22kg of equipment up 51 flights of stairs, she did not think about the pain she was in, but the battles faced by strangers.