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    ACC says it will need to collect $4.7 billion in levies in the 2025/26 financial year, Photo:...

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    Accident numbers putting pressure on ACC

    Nearly half the population of Otago had active Accident Compensation Corporation injury claims last year, prompting the government agency to raise concerns about the financial pressure it was...

    Korean society, veteran mark war’s 75th anniversary

    PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

    Korean society, veteran mark war’s 75th anniversary

    Joined by family and members of the Dunedin Korean Society at WongGok Restaurant yesterday are Changsik Kim, Ken Wright, Avro Carman and Euija Kim.

    Direct flights across the Ditch set to leave the runway

    Direct international flights return to Dunedin Airport tomorrow. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH

    Direct flights across the Ditch set to leave the runway

    Fasten your seatbelts Dunedin, it is almost time for liftoff.

    Housed youth commit less crime: study

    Chang Yu. Photo: supplied

    Housed youth commit less crime: study

    Having a safe, stable roof overhead appears to be one of the key factors in curbing New Zealand’s high rate of youth offending.

    ‘Glad everyone is safe’ after fire destroyed home

    Firefighters work to extinguish a fire which tore through an Allandale Rd, Dunedin, house shortly...

    ‘Glad everyone is safe’ after fire destroyed home

    A Dunedin man who lost his home to a blaze in St Clair overnight says he is relieved his family got out safely.

    Hospital stall due to contract

    Pete Hodgson. File photo: Peter McIntosh

    Hospital stall due to contract

    The government bungled the opportunity to crack on with the new Dunedin hospital’s in-patient building last year by blowing up contract negotiations in sight of the finish line, sources say.

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    Living life to the fullest after beating all the odds

    Phoebe Finlay, 17, visits staff and parents at Dunedin Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit...

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    Living life to the fullest after beating all the odds

    Phoebe Finlay looks pretty good for someone who has died several times.

    Sing it with some country soul for the South

    PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

    Sing it with some country soul for the South

    Meila Scully, 12, of Riversdale, was a finalist in the junior gospel, junior solo and open western sections of the Southern Country Music Awards (SCMA), at the Taieri Bowling Club on Saturday night.

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    City celebrates Matariki at park

    The Matariki Festival was held at Logan Park on Saturday night. PHOTOS: GREGOR RICHARDSON

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    City celebrates Matariki at park

    Trees sparkled and there was a plentiful supply of food from trucks, but it was really the drones that drew crowds to Dunedin’s Logan Park.

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    US attack on Iran will worsen conflict: prof

    "I think it’s reflective of the fact that Mr Trump and his administration are living in something...

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    US attack on Iran will worsen conflict: prof

    The United States attacks on three principal nuclear sites in Iran will likely worsen conflict in the Middle-East, the University of Otago’s leading international relations academic says.

    Pacific relationship will ‘remain constant’: Peters

    Winston Peters out and about in the South Pacific. Photo: supplied

    Pacific relationship will ‘remain constant’: Peters

    Few people are as well placed to comment on the shifting sands of international politics in the South Pacific as Foreign Minister Winston Peters.

    'Glad everyone is safe' after fire razes home

    'Glad everyone is safe' after fire razes home

    A Dunedin man who lost his home to a blaze in St Clair says he is relieved the family got out safely.

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    OUSA rep running for council criticised

    University of Otago student Fergus Parks says the Otago University Student Association should...

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    OUSA rep running for council criticised

    A Labour candidate for the Dunedin City Council has become the target of a campaign calling for him to stand down as a student representative.

    Missing Mosgiel man found safe

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    Missing Mosgiel man found safe

    A "vulnerable" man reported as missing from Mosgiel yesterday has been found safe.

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    Former jet-sprint world champ jailed for assault

    David Hopkins in 2014 after returning from the United States as Union Internationale...

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    Former jet-sprint world champ jailed for assault

    A former world champion jet-sprinter has been jailed after dragging his partner by her hair and smashing her face into the floor.

    Marathon effort raises funds for charity

    PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH

    Marathon effort raises funds for charity

    Scott Casey-Wooldridge, 27, completes a 42km row on a rowing machine, as part of a marathon fundraising campaign yesterday.

    ‘Gift’ of Olveston celebrated on Matariki

    Lynda Short, left, with daughter Catherine Short, and granddaughter Grace Thompson, take a tour...

    ‘Gift’ of Olveston celebrated on Matariki

    Nearly 200 people stepped back in time on Matariki yesterday.

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    10 housing projects cut locally

    Kāinga Ora has cancelled plans to turn this Carroll St site into a 42-home state housing...

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    10 housing projects cut locally

    Ten Kainga Ora state housing projects in Dunedin bringing 120 homes have been scrapped in what has been described as another "kick in the guts" to the city.

    Discards redesigned for charity auction

    Otago Polytechnic student Emily Gilbert shows off the papier mache  torso she created, at the...

    Discards redesigned for charity auction

    Dozens of previously unwanted or unsellable items have been brought back to life.

    Inquiry after man burnt in car fire

    Police cordon off the Karitane lookout early on Friday morning following a car fire. A male with...

    Inquiry after man burnt in car fire

    Police are investigating after a man received extensive burns in a car fire near Karitane.
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