After ''incredibly stressful'' experiences during the recent South Dunedin floods, community members celebrated being together again, at a fundraising concert last night.
The start of the new Dunedin southern routes bus service has been accompanied by teething troubles, and community concern about lack of direct bus access to South Dunedin from Green Island.
The Otago Fish and Game Council is upset a proposed external stakeholders group could be ''dumped'', despite an earlier agreement linked with Environment Court mediation over water plan changes.
For vulnerable Mosgiel people, staying warm and safe during the winter cold is just as important as improving air quality.
Ideals about love and beauty, old and new, were scrutinised in a mini-drama which included a smart phone and the goddess Aphrodite, at the Otago Museum yesterday.
Otago is a province with a rich history of achieving firsts. We have led the way in many fields and that tradition continues. Researchers at the University of Otago are attracting international attention and some have been granted millions of dollars for cutting-edge projects. What are they up to? Reporter John Gibb does his own research on the researchers.
New Zealand is keen to promote the resumption of long-stalled Middle East peace talks, and will bring a ''sense of impatience'' when it starts chairing the United Nations Security Council next month.
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says he understands that no journalists have gone to Nauru since that Pacific nation imposed a non-refundable $8000 visa fee on reporters wishing to visit.
Dunedin and other Otago readers now have the chance to take part in an annual Garden Bird Survey, which is run throughout the country, starting today and ending on July 5.
Otago Regional Council member Gerry Eckhoff says it is ''regrettable'' the council has earmarked no funding to support community groups, including those in Central Otago, battling to remove wilding trees.
The Otago Regional Council has delayed establishing a stakeholder consultation group after hearing that national lobbyists could be like ''ferrets fighting in a sack'', and undermine the council's interests.
For the Government to ask regional council ratepayers to foot more of the bill for the SuperGold Card subsidy on free bus travel was ''not on'' and caused serious concern.
A familiar face, and a faded image of Queen's High School have helped solve a riddle involving an old film found in a Kodak camera bought at a Dunedin shop.
Otago Daily Times editorial artist Alistair Craig has won the open section of the inaugural National Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies cartoon competition.
The Government's response to a United Nations committee confirms New Zealand is a ''world leader'' on disabilities issues, Disabilities Issues Minister Nicky Wagner says.
National Poisons Centre director Dr Wayne Temple is ''extremely pleased'' the centre's future is secure, after a long-awaited Ministry of Health decision was announced yesterday.
Five up-and-coming University of Otago academics have gained Early Career Awards for Distinction in Research.
Aoraki Polytechnic photography student Joshua Goulding is keen to restore a family's lost memories of a Fijian trip, after buying an old Kodak Instamatic camera from a Dunedin recycling store.
University of Otago graduates have received a record five New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Fellowships to support postgraduate study this year.
University of Otago graduate Helen Alderson has won a scholarship, funded by one of the world's wealthiest men, to pursue PhD research at Cambridge University.
