Hamish MacLean

The cross-council project under way to help South Dunedin adapt to climate change should produce a "high-level" list of options by the middle of next year, its programme manager says.

It was definitely not Lorna Watts’ first Parkrun at the weekend.

Only a few years ago Georgia Hawthorne was crying in a supermarket toilet awaiting the results of a pregnancy test.

The last thing Dunedin wants is "a Gerry Brownlee-type figure" to come in and start trying to solve South Dunedin’s problems, a regional councillor says.

Dunedin's government-backed video game development initiative has marked a major milestone.

Forest & Bird’s new Otago Southland regional conservation manager has spent the last eight years working in local government and says she hopes to use that experience to her advantage.

The Dunedin City Council may have underestimated the risk to human health posed by a proposed landfill near Brighton, an Otago Regional Council report says.

Aurora Energy has installed temporary generators in Makarora after heavy snow left the Otago township without power over the weekend.

An estimated 7000 people attended this year’s scaled-back Dunedin Midwinter Carnival at the weekend.

The sale of a Dunedin industrial heritage building in Rattray St could add to the urban renewal under way in the inner city.

The weather outside was frightful, but the lanterns inside delighted hundreds at the opening night of the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival.

A Queenstown free-skier issued a warning to other skiers yesterday after he was swept 50m in an avalanche he triggered at Coronet Peak.

More staff could be required at the Otago Regional Council if the country intends to move ahead with climate change strategies that include relocating homes or shifting community assets away from...

A new four-storey retail, office and apartment building is planned for a part of Dunedin’s city centre that has been neglected "for too long".

Members of a rugby club, unhappy about being ejected from a hotel, tried to set beer crates on fire in the parking lot, police say.

Members of the public blocked in a dangerously drunk Dunedin driver, taking her keys off her, after she was seen swerving all over the road on Friday afternoon, police say.

Members of a Dunedin rugby club, unhappy about being ejected from a Waikouaiti establishment, tried to set beer crates on fire in the parking lot, police say.

Dunedin Forest & Bird members have followed bat signals into a remote yet unlikely home for critically endangered long-tailed bats.