Benchmark marked with bench
Benchmark marked with bench
The Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club is celebrating its centenary year by gifting Dunedin a bench for a popular lookout point.
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Focus on past as 150th marked
Focus on past as 150th marked
A rural Dunedin school reflected on the past as it marked its 150th anniversary.
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3 Waters go-live date protest renewed
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3 Waters go-live date protest renewed
Southern mayors say they are again being ignored by the government over Three Waters reforms.
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Gas leak a ‘nail in the coffin’
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Gas leak a ‘nail in the coffin’
Small business owners in a central Dunedin block say Wednesday’s gas leak was like a "nail in the coffin" to their survival.
Super blue moon pays last visit until 2032
Super blue moon pays last visit until 2032
The last time there was a super blue moon in the sky, Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium was still under construction and the All Blacks had only won one World Cup.
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Researcher coding for survival
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Researcher coding for survival
A University of Otago researcher went from matching people on dating apps to matching kākāpō for breeding with his breakthrough genetics research.
New digs give Barnardos chance to grow
New digs give Barnardos chance to grow
A new office in Dunedin means children’s charity Barnardos can expand its services and meet the needs of the community.
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Secret to happiness: the key role of sleep
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Secret to happiness: the key role of sleep
A Dunedin clinical therapist who believes he has the secret to living a life low on stress is calling on people to flip the script and put sleep ahead of everything else.
Museum tissue bank helps researchers
Museum tissue bank helps researchers
Tūhura Otago Museum is making it a lot easier for researchers to tell between their crayfish and lobsters.
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Siblings last two on roll at Taieri Beach School
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Siblings last two on roll at Taieri Beach School
A brother and sister are the last two pupils at a school near Dunedin, but the principal insists it has a future.
Pupils take on health, wellbeing challenge
Pupils take on health, wellbeing challenge
Ten Otago schools and 710 pupils are keeping track of their steps, what they eat and general wellbeing as part of a nationwide challenge that focuses on physical and mental wellbeing.
School rector backs Labour’s financial literacy policy
School rector backs Labour’s financial literacy policy
A Dunedin rector thinks Labour’s proposal to teach financial literacy in schools is a good idea.
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Judges blown away by pupils’ research
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Judges blown away by pupils’ research
The research produced by two budding Dunedin scientists has left judges of a secondary school science fair stunned.
Dunedin high school students win big at science fair
Dunedin high school students win big at science fair
The research produced by two budding Dunedin scientists has left judges of a secondary school science fair stunned.
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Link found between mental health, NCEA pass rate
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Link found between mental health, NCEA pass rate
A nationwide study has found that pupils entering secondary school with prior mental health conditions were less likely to pass NCEA level 1 and more likely to be stood down or suspended.
Cursed by the 'old witch in the dairy'
Cursed by the 'old witch in the dairy'
A self-described "old witch" has warned university students she will call their parents if they keep littering outside her store.
‘Old witch’ curses lazy litterers
‘Old witch’ curses lazy litterers
A self-described "old witch" is warning Dunedin students she will call their parents if they keep littering outside her store.
Growing together
Growing together
Ravensbourne Primary School pupils, from left, Owen McCulloch, 6, Evie Youngman, 7, and Jack O’Neill, 6, are set to plant 200 trees provided by the Halo Project with their classmates and volunteers...
Church group swamped with log splitter offers
Church group inundated with offers to replace stolen log splitter
A Dunedin church group is back chopping charity firewood after offers flooded in to replace its stolen log splitter.
Sticks, mud used to build lessons
Sticks, mud used to build lessons
School pupils from Dunedin and Clutha District got their hands dirty using materials that could be found in their backyards to build structures for their schools at an Enviroschools hui yesterday.