Vaughan Elder

A University of Otago study could help answer why people enter supermarkets intent on making healthy choices only to leave with junk food.

A fast-tracked Otago Peninsula cycleway could be completed in three years instead of nine, at no extra cost to ratepayers.

Macandrew Bay residents remain fed-up with freedom campers, but there are hopes a Department of Conservation (Doc) campsite could ease tensions.

The cost of building a retaining wall at Broad Bay has ballooned from $900,000 to $1.5 million.

A dispute over who pays to fix the faulty Portobello pontoon means it might not be back in time for Christmas and the busy boating season.

Ngai Tahu has withdrawn from a project worth tens of millions to build two student hostels in Dunedin, but says it remains keen on investing elsewhere in the city.

An aid worker returning from fighting Ebola ''may well'' bring the deadly disease to New Zealand, a Southern District Health Board member says.

Icy cold winds and rain put a dampener on crowd numbers at this year's Melbourne Cup Day at Wingatui.

Police are seeking witnesses to an assault on a road in the Dunedin suburb of Mornington yesterday afternoon.

The University of Otago has made the unusual step of offering its staff a $1000 one-off payment instead of a pay rise.

An unassuming cottage might be the oldest building on the University of Otago's campus.

Dunedin's No.7 Balmac is proving to be a star magnet, with Michael Fassbender the latest Hollywood A-lister to dine there.

Otago Polytechnic is looking to aggressively expand its Cromwell campus, which it has rebranded ''Central''.

For the second time in little over a week, Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin has been transformed into a House of God.

Testing of a Dunedin-made diagnostic device is being fast-tracked so it can be used in the global fight against Ebola.

A tiny group of Dunedin researchers has produced a potentially life-saving device which detects viruses and bacteria.

A peek behind the scenes of a Hollywood production shooting in Dunedin revealed just how complex the business of movie-making is.