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Prospective employees get insight into rural sector

Balclutha’s Mike Hurring Logging and Contracting employee Josh Hurring shows Dunedin school pupil...

Prospective employees get insight into rural sector

The future rural workforce got a taste of farm life when Otago businesses came together on Saturday to show prospective employees what the sector has on offer.

Second cab joins Ravensbourne railway

Ravensbourne train enthusiast Jarrod Hodson has added a second locomotive to his ever-growing...

Second cab joins Ravensbourne railway

Ravensbourne's train line to nowhere is growing exponentially.

Kindness campaign aimed at bus users

The Otago Regional Council will be putting these signs up in buses and around the city to remind...

Kindness campaign aimed at bus users

Bus users are being asked to "be nice to each other" in the wake of the bus hub stabbing earlier this year.

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Wind makes its presence felt in city

Rubbish bins awaiting emptying toppled and blew down Heriot Row, blocked in their path by a...

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Wind makes its presence felt in city

A windy start to spring in Dunedin brought down powerlines, trees and blew around rubbish bins.

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Teacher letting her alter ego surface in name of rock shows

Trinity Catholic College teacher and Dunedin rock singer Sophie Whibley is gearing up for a very...

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Teacher letting her alter ego surface in name of rock shows

A Dunedin secondary school teacher has an alter ego that comes out to rock once the students have gone home.

Crash tree cleared by forestry workers

A fallen tree that caused a car to crash in Mosgiel was swiftly taken care of by forestry workers on their way to work.

21st birthday party-crasher arrested

A man was arrested after showing up unannounced to a 21st birthday in Dunedin, where he allegedly assaulted and threatened to kill partygoers.

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Buddhist community celebrates

Forty years have passed since the Dhargyey Buddhist Centre in Dunedin came to be and members turned up in droves to celebrate the milestone on Saturday.

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Rural sector opens doors to public

Logger or gamer? Balclutha’s Mike Hurring Logging and Contracting employee Josh Hurring shows...

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Rural sector opens doors to public

The future of the workforce got a taste of farm life when numerous Otago businesses came together to show Dunedin what the rural sector has on offer.

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Teaching the art of television

Emmy award-winning producer, director and writer Jon Kroll was in Dunedin on Saturday to give a...

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Teaching the art of television

Gordon Ramsay "does not suffer fools lightly", and it is only because Emmy award-winning producer, director and writer Jon Kroll has great people management skills that he's avoided raising the celebrity chef’s ire.

Bits here and there

Bits here and there

Allanton resident Alan Loughrey paints his 60-year-old steel stoop yacht called Wings at the Otago Yacht Club yesterday.

Charity’s true impact revealed when its help is needed

Gore resident David Christie holds a bucket of flowers during Daffodil Day in Dunedin yesterday....

Charity’s true impact revealed when its help is needed

Daffodil Day impacts you in a very different way when you become the recipient of the services it is fundraising for, one cancer patient says.

Violence flares in bus hub dust-up

The fight happened at the Dunedin bus hub. Photo: ODT Files

Violence flares in bus hub dust-up

A family feud went public when an uncle allegedly assaulted his nephew in the Dunedin bus hub.

Double trouble for Kaitangata drink-driver

Double trouble for Kaitangata drink-driver

A Kaitangata man whose car keys were confiscated by police for driving drunk was later caught behind the wheel again - in the same car.

MDMA, alcohol use studied

University students say a gram of MDMA can cost about $200 to $300 in Dunedin. Photo: Getty

MDMA, alcohol use studied

Ecstasy users could ease up on the alcohol and have just as much fun, a University of Otago researcher says.

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Charity shocked by $40K council bill

Ōtepoti Dunedin Whānau Refuge is seeking to knock down some walls in its premises to develop an...

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Charity shocked by $40K council bill

A Dunedin charity has been left shocked by a $40,000 bill from the council over "minor work" on its premises.

Dunedin driver lands in tree after brakes fail

A Dunedin woman's car got stuck in a tree when the brakes failed while she was driving down a steep hill, police say.

Dunedin bus driver in alleged hit and run

The bus hub experienced an increase in antisocial behaviour in 2021 and last year. Its location...

Dunedin bus driver in alleged hit and run

A Dunedin bus driver allegedly drove off after hitting a pedestrian who was crossing the road, police said.

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Bus hub security harassed in wake of stabbing

Two Allied Security employees patrol the Great King St bus hub. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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Bus hub security harassed in wake of stabbing

Security personnel patrolling the bus hub in the wake of a fatal stabbing in May have been spat on, kicked and harassed, documents show.

Queenstown pride festival flags cut down

Queenstown Winter Pride co-director Sam Coulthard stands in front of a surviving Winter Pride...

Queenstown pride festival flags cut down

Mysterious hooded figures were captured on CCTV scrambling up poles in central Queenstown to remove about 30 pride flags in the days before a major festival.

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