Dunedin lawyer Peter Sara is urging a "culture change" over privacy issues at the ACC after the names of several hundred Otago claimants were included in an email mistakenly sent to Auckland resident Bronwyn Pullar late last year.
New Zealand's $1.5 billion kiwifruit export industry was threatened with "extinction" last year after being hit hard by bacterial infection, but University of Otago biochemist Associate Prof Russell Poulter now believes the industry will survive.
New Zealand still has time to avoid America's problems with poorly co-ordinated and "mediocre" healthcare for chronically ill patients, visiting professor Chad Boult says.
Proposed Government moves to rein in the student loan scheme "in a big way" could ultimately harm the Dunedin economy, Otago Polytechnic Students' Association official Mark Baxter warns.
Otago regional transport committee chairman Stephen Woodhead is urging that any proposed new transport links between Queenstown and Milford Sound should be undertaken as a "public-private" partnership.
The Otago regional transport committee on Tuesday agreed to contact its Southland counterpart, seeking a "collaborative approach" to the funding of a new $20 million Kawarau Falls bridge near Frankton.
Draft Otago regional land transport plans for the next three years envisage spending $460 million, but few new projects are proposed for the transport network because of "constraints" on funding.
Family of those missing from the fishing boat Easy Rider yesterday visited the spot where the vessel sank last week.
The crowds may not have always been teeming at the Otago Museum's tropical forest, but the forest's recent artificial "monsoons" did prove successful and might be repeated.
When research vessel Chikyu leaves Japan next month on a drilling mission to unravel some of the mysteries behind last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami, Dunedin researcher Dr Virginia Toy will be aboard.
University of Otago scientists are seeking funds to undertake pioneering research into whether tiny microorganisms in the human gut may be contributing to big problems with obesity.
The Dunedin Gasworks Museum redevelopment project is gaining momentum, with more than $300,000 raised, and community support also growing, organisers say.
A stronger focus is needed on preventing accidental nerve injury during medical treatments in New Zealand, new University of Otago research suggests.
A "neglected discovery" by a pioneering American radiotherapist could help pave the way for eventual widespread use of pig organ transplants in humans, a recently-published medical research paper suggests.
Huge container ships were more of a threat than massive waves during Team Gallagher's recent epic Sydney to Auckland transtasman voyage by row boat.
Otago Daily Times editor Murray Kirkness and Southland Times editor Fred Tulett will take part in a panel discussion this month on the "changing media landscape" and its dramatic effect on communicating the news.
A University of Otago Law Faculty initiative to send law books to Africa has proved a big success, helping inspire other donations of books to develop a new university law library.
More action is needed to counter social inequality and poverty if New Zealand's "vulnerable children" are to thrive and achieve, the University of Otago's Prof Mark Henaghan says.
Prof Henaghan, who is dean of the university law faculty and a specialist on laws protecting children, was one of four participants in a recent university "Public Square" panel discussion focusing o
University of Otago paleontologist Prof Ewan Fordyce is "elated" over the reconstruction of the fossilised bones of an ancient giant penguin, an achievement already sparking strong overseas media interest.
Frog lovers are being invited to celebrate an international "Leaping Ahead of Extinction" event in Dunedin today.