John Gibb

A Mosgiel bar will have its on-licence suspended for 24 hours after opening for the Rugby World Cup final last year.

Dunedin's humble observatory might be perched in a quiet city park but it is being used to study a giant asteroid which is so big that it has its own rings.

The Otago Regional Council has accepted commissioners’ recommendations that a minimum flow of 900 litres per second of surface water be set for the Lindis River catchment, in Central Otago.

Some of the biggest changes in Dunedin’s bus network system for more than 20 years, including changes in at least six weekday bus routes and a simplification of  fare zones take place on...

University of Otago graduate and former Wanganui mayor Michael Laws is standing for the Otago Regional Council’s Dunstan constituency.

A series of changes to Dunedin’s bus network, including simplified routes, is intended to make the system easier to understand and use, an  Otago Regional Council manager says.

Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Woodhead still has "serious concerns" about what he sees as "unprecedented" central government interference with local government, including in Otago.

An expected big rise in the number of New Zealanders receiving dementia care in future highlights the need for our mental-capacity law to be updated and ``liberty safeguards'' provided.

Green Island needs a community area where youngsters can play safely, and not only parks where people can exercise their dogs.

Police  were last night hunting for a knife-wielding assailant who attempted to rob the Highgate Dairy, on Highgate, Dunedin.

South Dunedin residents will be able to learn more about natural hazards facing the area through drop-in sessions to be held at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum early next month.

Police are hunting for a knife-wielding assailant who attempted to rob the Highgate Dairy, on Highgate, Dunedin, tonight.

University of Otago researchers have discovered the molecular mechanism through which queen honeybees carefully control the fertility of worker bees.

As several departments in the University of Otago humanities division face the possibility of staff cuts, reporter John Gibb reflects on his own Otago humanities degree studies in what now seems a...

The Otago Regional Council has thrown its financial support behind a  project to control stoats, ferrets and rats beyond the Orokonui Ecosanctuary,  northeast of Dunedin.