Hamish MacLean

The Ministry of Health has revealed new Covid-19 locations of interest on its website this evening which includes places in Queenstown and Hokitika, on the West Coast.

Central Otago claimed hottest spot in the country yesterday as temperatures soared under sunny skies.

The Dunedin City Council will not get together with opponents of its landfill plans to thrash out concerns at a pre-hearing meeting, the Otago Regional Council says.

Retired High Court Judge Sir Graham Panckhurst has agreed to lead an inquiry into the Otago Regional Council, the council’s chairman says.

Dunedin was the only place in the country to set a cold-weather record last year, the hottest year in New Zealand’s history.

"Basically, we’ve got a month of summer, and then things are going to get really, really, quite ugly — unless we’re really lucky."

There are scars on the land near Cambrians that reveal the area’s mining past. The collection of houses that remain after its early gold rush beginnings only run about 1km along Cambrian Rd, but...

The Otago Regional Council took great strides towards establishing a fit-for-purpose planning regime last year, but the ORC’s stumbles gained greater attention in 2021. Hamish MacLean looks back at...

A Dunedin teenage piano virtuoso credits his 94-year-old piano teacher for his success.

"Basically, we’ve got a month of summer, and then things are going to get really, really, quite ugly — unless we’re really lucky."

University of Otago Covid-19 experts are not immune to the increasingly vitriolic attacks dished out to scientists commenting on New Zealand’s pandemic response.

Southern police have criticised behaviour on the roads during a deadly holiday period, saying poor driving was "everywhere they looked".

Graffiti lines a wall in Cumberland St, in Dunedin’s city centre.

Inspiration comes to those who knit.

Dunedin's warmest year on record should have alarm bells ringing, a well-known Otago climate scientist says.

Boxing Day crashes kept emergency services in Dunedin on the move yesterday.

The Southern District Health Board says it has listened to the concerns of neighbours of Dunedin’s new 22-room self-isolation quarantine facility at Aaron Lodge.