Debbie Porteous

Pop culture Armageddon to hit Dunedin

Gaming, comic, sci-fi and fantasy fans listen up: New Zealand's biggest pop culture expo is coming to Dunedin.

Power to fight corrosion

Technology usually used on wharves and ships is being used for the first time by the Dunedin City Council, to stop a coastal bridge degenerating.

Councils co-operate to make the most of fast fibre

Councils co-operate to make the most of fast fibre

Work is about to begin on a plan to improve and get the best benefit from digital connections across Otago.

Psychotherapists warn court change costly

Psychotherapists say Family Court counselling services have contributed to more stable custodial arrangements and to children's safety for the past 30 years and reducing them will increase costs to the state down the line.

Video: Inside Toitu Otago Settlers Museum

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum curator Peter Read in the new transport and technology exhibition...

Video: Inside Toitu Otago Settlers Museum

For those who want to see something that moves with the times, is informative and beautiful, there will soon be a new museum in town.

Tahuna treatment plant upgrade further delayed until November

Tahuna treatment plant upgrade further delayed until November

The completion of the upgrade of Dunedin's main waste water treatment plant at Tahuna has been further delayed, as parts take longer than expected to complete.

War effort to be recognised

Former 75 Squadron aircrew Neville Sellwood (left) and Don Mackenzie, with a model of the...

War effort to be recognised

Two former airmen from Dunedin are looking forward "enormously" to having the efforts which they and fellow New Zealand Bomber Command veterans made formally recognised today, at a commemorative service in Wellington.

Any benefit from oil strike years away

Any benefit from oil strike years away

Even if Anadarko strikes oil next year, it would be at least seven or eight years before there is any benefit for Dunedin, the company says.

KiwiRail set to confirm Southern job cuts

KiwiRail set to confirm Southern job cuts

Kiwirail management will meet staff in Dunedin today to deliver bad news about job cuts in its infrastructure and engineering division.

Earthquake Shake Out: thousands to take part

Nearly 50,000 people in Otago will drop, cover and hold at 9.26am tomorrow as they take part in a national earthquake drill.

Building demolished more than year after order

The footpath in front of the condemned building had been blocked to pedestrians. Photo by Peter McIntosh. The Brocklebank building in South Dunedin is no more - finally. An excavator rolled in and demolished the 100-year-old building early yesterday morning, more than a year after its demolition was ordered by the Dunedin City Council.

New life for old building after refurbishment

The former Donald Reid Store on Cumberland St, Dunedin, is shrouded in scaffolding.

Councils to align on quake policy

Otago councils have agreed to investigate a joint approach to deal with earthquake-prone buildings.

'Simple yet elegant' logo for museum

'Simple yet elegant' logo for museum

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum has unveiled its new logo. It was developed by Dunedin company BrandAid and will be used in all branding for the redeveloped museum.

At 100, she still surprises herself

Centenarian Cassie McMullan gets ready to take a spin in a 100-year-old Model T Ford in Dunedin...

At 100, she still surprises herself

Cassie McMullan likes surprises. And it was a bit of a surprise to her she made it to her 100th birthday yesterday, because she had never really wanted to live that long without her husband, Thomas.

Nobody left satisfied

Neighbourly relations on Currie Rd look set to be tested further, following the decision of the Dunedin City Council to grant a variation to the resource consent of Grandview Gardens function venue near Outram.