The Otago Seafarers’ Centre in Port Chalmers has made some big changes to help visiting seamen, confined to their vessels through pandemic restrictions.
Parental anxiety turned to joy when four missing teenagers were found safe and well after a trip through the Manuherikia Gorge in kayaks and inflatables went wrong yesterday.
A police search and rescue operation has been mounted after four teenagers were reported overdue in their attempts to travel via the Manuherikia River to a bridge further downstream this afternoon.
More than 1000 people are likely to attend the latest Whare Flat Folk Festival, partly because of a post-pandemic hunger for live music, organisers say.
Clutha resident Stephen Woodhead is calling for a community rethink about road safety after the latest in a "devastating" series of 25 Otago road deaths.
Independent painting contractor Chris Stanton (second from right) and James Wren and Co painters (from left) Rhys Brumby, Glenn Tumaru, and company contract supervisor Blair Mitchell (at right)...
Despite an increasingly strict Covid-19 lockdown in Britain, opera singer Jonathan Lemalu still hopes to spend a "fantastic Christmas" at his London home with his young family.
Dr Aniruddha Chatterjee’s educational journey has taken him from his first outdoor classroom, learning under a tree in India, to cutting-edge global epigenetics research in Dunedin.
An injured person, believed to have received serious leg injuries in a chainsaw accident, has been flown from Ettrick, in Central Otago, to Dunedin Hospital by helicopter.
A dozen people, mainly children, yesterday took part in the first of a new series of family-oriented tours running at the Otago Museum over the summer.
Undeterred by capping ceremony postponements, hundreds of graduands surged on to the University of Otago campus yesterday, celebrating in sunshine as a bagpiper played.