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    Dunedin to escape worst of weather bomb - for now

    Dunedin residents can stand down and relax again, after a large weather system that threatened to bring a major deluge and flooding to the city, moved off to the east of the country.

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    Historic pub ready for loving ‘revival’

    Outside the Law Courts Hotel are (from left) PKB builders contractor Paul Kirby and new owners...

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    Historic pub ready for loving ‘revival’

    The new owners of a historic Dunedin restaurant and pub say they are taking over a beautiful building that just needs some love.

    Stolen Cresta's cruise from Christchurch

    Stolen Cresta's cruise from Christchurch

    A 1980s luxury car stolen in Christchurch has turned up hundreds of kilometres away in Dunedin.

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    ‘Bandanna burglar’ returned to scene

    Nicholas Kerr was told by a judge he would be imprisoned again if he continued to target student...

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    ‘Bandanna burglar’ returned to scene

    A Dunedin man known as "the bandanna burglar", after a series of student-flat break-ins, has returned to the scene of the crime, a court has heard.

    Changes in personnel leading new hospital build continue

    Hamish Brown. Photo: Supplied

    Changes in personnel leading new hospital build continue

    The merry-go-round of faces leading the new Dunedin hospital build continues with the departure of a long-serving local health official and arrival of one of New Zealand’s top health bosses.

    Cops called to dust-up outside cinema

    Police were called to Moray Pl after multiple reports about two men fighting. Photo: Google Maps

    Cops called to dust-up outside cinema

    A dispute between two men outside a Dunedin cinema turned violent after one refused to leave, police say.

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    Otago Museum to charge international visitors

    "We’ve made this independent decision because we must act to protect the future of our work." —...

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    Otago Museum to charge international visitors

    While a proposal to charge international visitors $20 to enter some of Dunedin’s cultural institutions has been thrown out, Tūhura Otago Museum is pushing ahead with the fee.

    Chalking it up

    Photo: Gerard O'Brien

    Chalking it up

    Contractors, suspended in a crane’s man-cage, remove numbered bricks from the Dunedin Gasworks Museum’s chimney yesterday.

    Hundreds donate blood at university

    University of Otago microbiology honours student Caitlin Ewenson gives blood at Union Hall...

    Hundreds donate blood at university

    About 250 people donated blood at the University of Otago’s Union Hall yesterday.

    Outrage over one-game ban for stomper

    Green Island prop Aifala Taelega has been left with a nasty wound after he was stomped in the...

    One-game ban for stomper outrages disfigured player’s son

    The son of a Dunedin club rugby player who has been left disfigured after being stomped on the head during a game is outraged the culprit was given just a one-game ban.

    Photographers go a bit wild

    PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH

    Photographers go a bit wild

    Judges for the 2025 Tūhura Otago Museum Photography Competition display some of the entries in the wildlife category of the annual photography competition.

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    Landfill going ahead: council

    Proposed Smooth hill site looking north towards Dunedin, PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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    Landfill going ahead: council

    It is time to get on with the job and construct the Smooth Hill landfill, Dunedin’s mayor says.

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    Hospital housing for out-of-town families under threat

    Oamaru House. Photo: Google Maps

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    Hospital housing for out-of-town families under threat

    A volunteer-run service providing affordable accommodation to out-of-town families of patients in Dunedin Hospital has been given just four months to find a new building or close for good.

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    Pregnancy opioid use surprises midwife

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    Pregnancy opioid use surprises midwife

    A Dunedin midwife is shocked by research showing New Zealand has the third-highest prevalence in the world of prescribed opioid use during pregnancy.

    Attack on politicians placed in large print

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    Attack on politicians placed in large print

    A retired Dunedin doctor has put his money where his mouth is, declaring a plague on both Labour and National parties for their failure to deliver the new Dunedin hospital as promised.

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    Car crashing into fence gives resident ‘big fright’

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    Car crashing into fence gives resident ‘big fright’

    An elderly Dunedin woman got a "big fright" when she was woken by a loud bang after a driver careened into her concrete fence.

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    Illustrating ‘generations of issues’

    Dunedin Public Art Galley director Cam McCracken (left) and Te Rūnaka o Ōtākou upoko Edward...

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    Illustrating ‘generations of issues’

    A local Māori leader hopes an exhibition detailing Ngāi Tahu’s landmark High Court case will shine a light on waterway degradation across the iwi’s tribal lands.

    Well-represented German dept alumni to hold reunion

    Photo: Gerard O'Brien

    Well-represented German dept alumni to hold reunion

    Nearly 100 former students of the University of Otago German language department will be saying "auf wiedersehen" to the department for one final time on Saturday.

    Sweep for chess team’s youngest

    The Otago regional chess champions are Logan Park High School A, (from left) Tyne Grant, Daniel...

    Sweep for chess team’s youngest

    A young Dunedin chess prodigy has cleaned up at the Otago secondary schools competition.

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    Funds approved for carbon-friendly transport

    Jim O'Malley. Photo: supplied

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    Funds approved for carbon-friendly transport

    More than $60 million worth of carbon-friendly transport projects were put on Dunedin City Council books as councillors sparred over combating climate change yesterday.
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