While some areas of Otago still face winter air quality exceedances, more than 70% of days across monitored sites during 2024 were classified as "Good".
While many of us will be blissfully sleeping in this weekend, hundreds of Highland and National dancers will be flinging themselves across a stage to the skirl of bagpipes.
A 31-year-old man’s long weekend holiday was cut short almost before it even started when he was caught driving while five times over the legal breath alcohol limit.
A man's King’s Birthday Weekend holiday has been cut short - almost before it even started - after he was caught by Oamaru police driving five times over the limit.
Despite two children being diagnosed with perinatally acquired HIV in 2024 — the first cases in New Zealand in more than a decade — the latest research shows the incidence of people being diagnosed...
MetService has upgraded its wind watch to a warning for Dunedin and the lower South Island from 3pm today, forecasting severe gale southwesterlies gusting to 130km/h in exposed places.
A large weather system that threatened to bring a major deluge to Dunedin has moved off to the east of NZ. But snow about higher parts of inland Otago and Southland is still forecast.
Dunedin residents can stand down and relax again, after a large weather system that threatened to bring a major deluge and flooding to the city moved off to the east of the country.
A pig's life is often associated with some of the less desirable things in life, but this little kitten — who thinks she is a pig — certainly seems to be "living high on the hog".
A popular and important outdoor skills course on the Taieri has been shut down after 35 years, due to a lack of volunteer support and the economic downturn.
While a proposal to charge international visitors $20 to enter some of Dunedin’s cultural institutions has been thrown out, Tūhura Otago Museum is pushing ahead with the fee.