Three hundred primary school children will soon learn more about a colonial era subsistence farm, thanks to a pilot scheme backed by the Dunedin Amenities Society.
Recent claims about the activities of some Australian-owned supermarkets on both sides of the Tasman have struck a nationalist nerve in New Zealand.
Several recent concerns, including over alleged pressure tactics by Australian-owned supermarkets, show there clearly are ''limits'' to New Zealand's special relationship with Australia.
If there is a downturn in the Australian economy, many New Zealanders long-term residents there will be among the worst affected, because they are ineligible for welfare support payments.
Michelle Macdonald clocked up more than 60,000km of driving to earn her law degree.
The world is entering a ''new era'' for suicide prevention, and New Zealand should focus more high-level leadership on this issue.
Otago's native plants, including its many hebe species, may help solve a puzzle which botanists have been scratching their heads about for centuries.
Two centuries after the first Christian mission station was established in New Zealand, University of Otago archaeologists are shedding new light on the daily lives of the country's first permanent European settlers.
Many people would be repulsed by the idea of children surgically fitting cockroaches with electronic devices and controlling them by smartphones, but in future such ''biobots'' could save lives after earthquakes.
A Scottish pipe band college is being established to ''teach young pipers and drummers the art'' and rejuvenate the tradition of Scottish musical performances in the Edinburgh of the South.
Long-term effects on family relationships should be considered before doctors seek a court order to override parental wishes over a child's medical treatment.
Two senior University of Otago academics, Associate Prof Craig Rodger and Dr Sarah Young, have won Fulbright awards, enabling them to undertake research for about five months in the United States.
The discovery of a previously unknown dolphin species highlights the South Island's growing international reputation as a hot spot for finding ancient marine mammal fossils, Prof Ewan Fordyce says.
Few New Zealanders realise their country would be under water without the titanic geological clash of two tectonic plates, which also formed the Southern Alps, scientists say.
You swallow it, sometimes spit it out and you almost always take it for granted.
Former Otago Museum chief executive Shimrath Paul received $429,104 in accrued sabbatical leave payments when he left the Otago Museum to take up a senior health administration post in Indonesia.
A ute was impounded by Dunedin police yesterday morning after it was seen doing ''donuts'', and cutting up grass at Opoho Park.
The University of Otago's Advanced School Sciences Academy is gaining momentum and opening up ''a world of possibilities'' for pupils from rural and lower decile schools throughout the country, organisers say.
Dunedin's rapidly rising status in food design circles will be reflected in a international conference being hosted by the Otago Polytechnic later this year, organisers say.
What are the odds former international motorcycle racer Graeme Crosby might move on from such high-speed pursuits to something a bit more sedate, like dreaming up a new cookbook?