Hamish MacLean

A mammoth film park planned for the edge of Wanaka has been hailed as a game-changer for the film industry in Otago after details were inadvertently made public this week.

New research from the University of Otago is being used to discredit the idea that culture could be tied to low rates of Maori home ownership.

University of Otago researchers and Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital have teamed up to help establish a new research centre for communicable diseases in Fiji.

The mammoth scale of a film studio planned for the outskirts of Wanaka, set to include replicas of New York, Venice and Paris, has become clearer in plans lodged with the Government.

For the past 10 years The Breast Room founder Denise Ives has been telling new mothers to trust themselves.

A Southern mayor’s call for a binding referendum on the water services reform is premature, the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) says.

Dunedin needs to stop hoping hotel developers will come clamouring to build in the city, the man behind a recently failed proposal for a five-star hotel says.

Emergency services crews work to free a woman from her vehicle after a crash at the intersection of Cumberland and Howe Sts in Dunedin yesterday afternoon.

After spending more than $100,000 seeing plan change 7 through the Environment Court, Otago Fish & Game is reviewing how much money it will need to take part in the Otago Regional Council’s...

When it comes to grunt, the diesel trucks at Blackhead Quarries’ Logan Point quarry cannot compete with their electric vehicle rival, quarry manager Joe Hunter says.

Yachting legend Sir Russell Coutts’ fight for water rights is not over yet.

Protesters outside the Dunedin Centre outnumbered the crowd inside about five to one as Dunedin’s rainbow community rallied to denounce a contentious women’s group speaking in the city at the weekend.