Initiative out to bring women to fly-fishing
Women are being encouraged to learn the cast, select the right nymph and get the drift.
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Alarm over mental health field staffing
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Alarm over mental health field staffing
Mental healthcare for older people in the South is ‘‘dangerously under-resourced’’ at a time when demand is at its highest, a senior clinician says.
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Disappointment as storied Otago student mag downsized
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Disappointment as storied Otago student mag downsized
An award-winning Otago University student magazine has been significantly cut down in size just one year after celebrating its centennial.
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Oysters arrive in Dunedin after Southlanders supplied
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Oysters arrive in Dunedin after Southlanders supplied
Dunedin has finally been granted access to the South’s favourite seafood delicacy, after the lion’s share were gobbled up quickly by Southland.
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Rūnanga requests shellfish closure
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Rūnanga requests shellfish closure
Shutting down the taking of shellfish at Moeraki is needed to stop the ‘‘gutting’’ of a local resource by newcomers to New Zealand, an iwi leader says.
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Dart liquidated; staff know little
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Dart liquidated; staff know little
Dart Engineering Ltd was put into liquidation yesterday with staff still in the dark about their future.
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Parking tech set to boost coffers
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Parking tech set to boost coffers
The chances of getting caught by Dunedin’s parking police will soon be significantly higher, because of new technology.
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Thirteen town houses set to occupy Baptist site
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Thirteen town houses set to occupy Baptist site
Work will start next week on the construction of 13 town houses on the site of the now demolished North East Valley Baptist Church.
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Assault while on bail adds to jail time
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Assault while on bail adds to jail time
A high-profile criminal who beat up his former partner in front of their children has been granted name suppression.
Flat stones put to use
Flat stones put to use
A relic of the past holds a mob of sheep at Longford, near Middlemarch.
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Poetic submission backs tree’s removal
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Poetic submission backs tree’s removal
An arboreal verse penned for a protected Mosgiel pin oak has joined artificial intelligence in backing the tree’s removal.
Where there’s smoke, there isn’t fire, actually
Where there’s smoke, there isn’t fire, actually
Firefighters work to clear fog from the On the Spot dairy in Taieri Rd, Wakari about 11.30am yesterday.
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Year’s home detention for assault and injuring child
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Year’s home detention for assault and injuring child
A day after attacking someone he believed had abused his child, an Oamaru man pinched his own daughter so hard he drew blood.
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Sex offences against girl lead to home detention
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Sex offences against girl lead to home detention
A man in his late 30s has received seven months’ home detention for sexually violating a 15-year-old girl at a family party and again in a public location.
Watchdog 'horrified' at beer wrongly labelled
Watchdog 'horrified' at beer wrongly labelled
Alcohol Healthwatch's executive director says he is "horrified" after tens of thousands of Steinlager beer bottles were mislabelled as alcohol free.
Cromwell College student second in national poetry competition
Cromwell College student second in national poetry competition
Year 9 Cromwell College Student Katie Anne Ley has come second place in the Junior Section of a National Poetry Competiton with her poem, 'A Love Letter to Colours'.
Minister quizzed about exchange with TVNZ chair
Minister quizzed about exchange with TVNZ chair
Broadcasting Minister Paul Goldsmith says he "may have grunted" at TVNZ's board chair Andrew Barclay, who raised a crime story with him.
Equipment to fix sewage plant not yet ordered: company
Equipment to fix sewage plant not yet ordered: company
A fault at the Wellington wastewater plant caused it to shut down, sending up to 70 million litres of untreated sewage into the sea daily.
Former All Black sells home for $2.45m with brother's help
Former All Black sells home for $2.45m with brother's help
Former Crusaders and All Blacks captain Sam Whitelock has teamed up with his brother Adam again - but this time it was to sell Sam's Christchurch home for $2.45 million.
Health worker forced to dip into son's account
Health worker forced to dip into son's account
About 5500 staff in Waikato didn't get paid due to a glitch.