In a move resembling the naming of Forsyth Barr Stadium, the Dunedin City Council is exploring the possibility of financial gain from Dunedin business naming rights on rooms in the upgraded Municipal Chambers and Dunedin Centre.
A New Zealander now living in Australia was escorted from a cruise ship by Dunedin police and Customs officers after the ship berthed in Port Chalmers yesterday.
Maxine Shanks has scholarships galore.
An experienced ambulance officer has been left with burns following an explosion at the St John ambulance depot in Dunedin yesterday.
This is the season for outdoor cannabis growing, and Southern District police are calling for landowners to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity that could be related to the plant's cultivation.
A barn dance of primary school principals is about to take place in Dunedin with the retirement of several principals, and the movement of others, scheduled for the end of this term.
In a bid to stop "fit for consumption" food from going to waste in Otago, Countdown and the Salvation Army have launched a programme whereby food from the supermarket is redirected to the Salvation Army food banks.
The name of the historic Dunedin rugby and cricket ground, Carisbrook, looks likely to live on in the name of a new local school.
The popular stereotype that girls and computer science do not mix is one pupils at Columba College are helping to turn around.
Yvonne Durham may be 79, but her experiences in the ways of the world haven't warmed her to having her photo taken.
A volunteer organisation providing early childhood education for preschoolers in Pine Hill is upset its premises has again become the target of vandalism.
After reading an Otago Daily Times feature about the perils of tramping in the Silver Peaks, a mother and her son set off into the rough hill country on Saturday ... and got lost.
Launching a career in aviation is no longer just "pie in the sky" stuff for Otago secondary school pupils.
Sam Snell, James Phizacklea and Noah Linscott are like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A South Africa-based scientist who helped his terminally ill Dunedin mother to die hopes his trial serves as a wake-up call for a change in the law which has made him a criminal.
The sentencing of a forensic scientist in an assisted-suicide case has reignited debate on the ethical and legal issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide.
They can fetch, roll over and play dead. But when it comes to turning on the tap for a drink of water, that's a different story.
Trainee pilots flocking from the northern hemisphere are expected to earn their wings in Southern skies next year as Mainland Air Services helps fill a predicted void in the number of airline pilots.
Dunedin's Fortune Theatre will be one of three arts organisations to take part in a programme providing guidance and expertise in online marketing.
It appears someone is taking political pot shots at New Zealand First's election policies, after a shotgun cartridge was found in the mailbox of the party's South Dunedin electorate office on Saturday morning.
