University of Otago students admitted they sounded like ''team whinge'' at a debate last night, but some were starting to question their English literature, French and gender studies majors.
Photo by Stephen Jaquiery.
Grey Power Otago has hit out at a Budget the organisation's president said was aimed at attracting the youth vote.
A good election-year Budget, a frustration for the arts community, or a Budget from a Government unwilling to set the agenda on climate change - those were the differing views of three North Dunedin flatmates last night.
One year ago, Galen Peterson was minutes into a hunting trip in Hawea he had flown all the way from Savage, Minnesota, to undertake.
Animation Research Ltd's Emmy award got a tour of New York bars and starred in plenty of mobile phone snaps in the Big Apple - but now the hefty golden gong is home in Dunedin and ready to start work for the company.
Nine men's and women's teams from Dunedin, Timaru and Ashburton turned on a carnival of rugby league nines on Saturday.
Sherlock Holmes was a dab hand at deduction. He observed, he deduced, then he solved.
Work has begun on what is now a $29 million redevelopment at Speight's brewery that will lead to 24 million litres of beer a year flowing from the Dunedin factory.
A "lifestyle package" was the motivation for a life on the road as part of the Gypsy Fair, one of its travelling craftsmen says.
The much vaunted Brand Dunedin campaign - an up to $500,000 campaign designed to take the place of "I am Dunedin" - is about to get a serious push two years after it was launched.
It would be easy, and just a trifle condescending, to arrive at a cat show and churn out another story suggesting cats and their owners look alike.
An unquenchable interest in public spending on stadiums and rugby is one of the reasons behind a public meeting in Dunedin on Thursday.
Police are investigating what appears to be a suspicious fire in the Dunedin suburb of Mornington after a house was badly damaged early on Saturday.
The Dunedin City Council has sold a large slice of one of its Carisbrook land parcels for about $700,000.
Signs on Tomahawk Rd in Dunedin, near Smaills Beach, that warn against collecting shellfish have almost had their day, as work to clean up sewage-contaminated Dunedin beaches comes to an end.
Church communities across Dunedin took part in re-enactments of the Crucifixion of Christ yesterday, carrying wooden crosses through various suburbs to mark Good Friday.
In her time at the helm of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Elizabeth Caldwell has seen 220,365 people - a record for the gallery - come through the doors from the Octagon.
Parking in Roslyn, Dunedin, is so tight a traffic engineering firm doing a survey parked in spaces at a local supermarket, the supermarket owners claim.
Trish Oakley, head of marketing and product development for Forsyth Barr, has been appointed a director of Dunedin International Airport Ltd.
