New Zealand cannot afford to back down over protecting the human rights of its citizens being detained for months in remote Australian detention centres before being deported.
Public transport needs in the Queenstown and wider Wakatipu area are coming under the spotlight, with the Otago Regional Council engaging consultants to help with a Wakatipu network review.
The Otago Regional Council is arranging for an independent economic assessment to be undertaken on the level of public benefit generated from flood and drainage schemes in the Taieri area.
Yes, the ''I Call Mosgiel My Home Town Reunion'' is going ahead this weekend, but, no, it won't be quite as big as first envisaged.
NASA's New Horizons space probe mission to Pluto cost the equivalent of more than a billion New Zealand dollars.
Few people have tried to interview an impressionist painting. And even fewer have successfully chatted to a colourfully dotted art work that also breathes, talks and either walks or runs.
Over the years quite a few other pony clubs in the greater Dunedin area have quietly clip clopped off into the sunset, but supporters are determined that the West Harbour Pony Club will not be one of them.
Smoke alarms woke a family group staying at a cottage at the Waiora Scout Camp at Whare Flat early yesterday, alerting them to an apparent chimney fire.
Someone stole a high quality mountain bike, valued about $9000, from a front window display at Bike Otago in Castle St, Dunedin, on Saturday night but the bike was not taken far.
University of Otago research sheds new light on ''silent killer'' high blood pressure, showing groups of people at risk of developing that condition can be identified in childhood.
Once international, always international.
Canadian-based social anthropologist Associate Prof Susanne Kuehling has gained insights into traditional gift exchanges in parts of Papua New Guinea by studying Kula valuables in the Otago Museum's collection.
Powerful new genetic analysis by University of Otago scientists of New Zealand's first dog, the extinct kuri, has revealed tantalising ancient links with Indonesia.
The rise of Islamic State is a ''danger to all states, including New Zealand'', and we should push for more action by the United Nations Security Council.
Good progress is being made with a community project which aims to preserve more of the memories about veterans who have been honoured with commemorative plaques in the Green Island Memorial Gardens.
World-leading research by University of Otago scientists has shown which neurons flip a key ''fertility master switch'' in the brain.
Holding some New Zealanders for months in remote Australian detention centres before deporting them invites comparison with detainees being held without trial at Guantanamo Bay.
A little-known heart-protective hormone seems likely to play a big role in helping patients recover after heart attacks, having already sparked ''a massive drop in mortality'' in animal research.
Aspiring poets cannot only pack up their troubles, but can also win some shopping vouchers by entering a poetry contest based on a World War 1 exhibition at the Otago Museum.
Statutory trust company Perpetual Guardian has thrown its financial weight behind Otago Museum's new $1 million planetarium, gaining naming rights and sponsoring an innovative ''Reach for the Stars'' programme.
