About 100 people protesting over fossil fuel and climate change issues blocked entry to three ANZ Bank branches in central Dunedin.
An update on a wide-ranging University of Otago support services review has been greeted cautiously by the Tertiary Education Union.
Future leaders in civil defence from eight overseas countries will converge on Dunedin today as part of an international training and development programme in disaster management.
University of Otago pharmacy researcher Prof Pauline Norris is "very pleased and excited'' to have gained a $150,000 feasibility study grant focusing on the effect of prescription charges on some people with low incomes.
University of Otago research, backed by a $150,000 grant, aims to help penetrate the haze around electronic cigarette use and shed new light on this hotly-debated topic.
Emeritus Prof Martin Ferguson says he felt "great relief'' when he recently found the site of an early house occupied by Arthur Burns, a key figure in the founding of Mosgiel.
Parents and teachers are delighted with a wooden playhouse and swing which have recently been given to the Mornington Kindergarten.
An ancient "killer walrus'' may have been wrongly accused.
Hundreds of smiling faces welcomed the start of a Mother's Day Fun Run/Walk at the Caledonian Ground, Dunedin, yesterday.
About 35 trees were planted yesterday during Dunedin's latest Trees for Babies/Celebrating Families planting project.
Otago Museum director and astronomer Dr Ian Griffin was up early yesterday to watch the Dunedin sky being lit up by meteors from Halley's Comet.
A former University of Otago employee had been compensated for her dismissal but not for a claimed "interference with her privacy'', the Human Rights Review Tribunal has heard.
Evidence suggested the University of Otago did not have ‘‘proper systems in place'' to deal adequately with a request by a university employee for information held about her, under the Privacy Act.
Local government is outperforming central government on both sides of the Tasman in responding to email queries, a University of Otago study has found.
Senior Otago Polytechnic product design students have volunteered to help develop innovative walking sticks for the visually impaired, by using a high-tech 3-D printer.
University of Otago computer science students have had a rare close encounter with punched card equipment used in Dunedin more than 50 years ago.
Speakers at an International Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Dunedin have urged for there to be a "culture change'' to improve workplace safety, and highlighted the challenge of keeping the annual ceremony going.
A king penguin-skin muff has made a ‘‘long journey home'' to Dunedin from Canada, more than 130 years after it was bought in the city.
University of Otago neuroscience graduate Sam Hall-McMaster is enjoying success after success, having gained two scholarships, totalling more than $250,000, to support study at Oxford University.
Anyone revisiting once-forgotten tunnels in northern France, dug by New Zealand engineers during World War 1, might be surprised to find names like Dunedin, Bluff, and Christchurch written on the tunnel walls.