Police inspect a commercial truck after it rolled into a retaining wall beside the south-bound lanes of State Highway 1, near Lookout Point, about 4.20pm yesterday.
Dunedin residents will have a rare chance to hear public lectures from two Nobel Prize winners on consecutive days this week.
In their early adult lives, John and Hellen Chuma had no idea they would one day leave their birthplace, Zimbabwe, and emigrate to New Zealand.
The completion of a $3.3 million redevelopment project which has transformed the former Gardens Tavern in Dunedin into a new University of Otago student study centre was celebrated yesterday.
University of Otago vice-chancellor Prof Harlene Hayne has been appointed to the Treasury's advisory board.
A major report on energy efficiency is highlighting a ''particularly problematic'' issue over fuel poverty and a lack of legal requirements for landlords to provide adequate insulation for many rental properties.
Christians are prepared to ''pay the price'' for their beliefs, including in social justice, recently-appointed Anglican Bishop of Wellington Justin Duckworth says.
It was particularly significant that the people of Scotland had voted a poet, Robert Burns, as the greatest Scotsman who ever lived, Dunedin poet David Howard says.
A planned pilot programme involving blackfoot paua in the Catlins could lead to an eventual change in the scientific survey approach for the country's entire paua fishery.
The increasing intensity of extreme weather events, and associated hugely damaging bushfires in Australia, are starting to influence public opinion over climate change issues, a leading ecologist, Prof Lesley Hughes, says.
Soaring fire risks mean tough decisions will soon have to be made about restricting urban growth in some ''wildland'' areas near cities in the United States and Australia, an American researcher says.
A new study suggests food changes mood and that eating fruit and vegetables each day helps keep the blues away.
A record Australian heat wave, bushfire woes and the mounting effects of global warming are likely to encourage more Australians, including academics, to shift to Dunedin, Prof Kath Dickinson believes.
Robert Boessenecker may have just helped dispose of a myth involving a prehistoric killer.
Seeking a change, and disillusioned over gun violence in the United States, theatre historian Dr Kim Axline Morgan has bought a house in Dunedin and plans to raise a family here.
High rates of smoking in outdoor transport waiting areas in this country could be undermining moves to encourage people to enjoy the health benefits of public transport, research suggests.
The University of Otago's master of entrepreneurship programme has leapt to the top of the class by winning the Outstanding Entrepreneurship Programme Abroad section in an international competition.
Long-serving former Otago Museum chief executive Shimrath Paul has been granted a rare honour- having a wing at the museum named after him.
University of Otago PhD student Trudi Webster has received a $10,000 research grant from the Otago Museum to support research involving the haunting sounds southern right whales make under water.
Student enrolments at the University of Otago's latest summer school have risen about 9%, officials say. Final figures would not be available until later in the year but latest figures indicated enrolments had risen to about 2240.
