New Zealand is failing to live up to its obligations to protect injured people with disabilities, under a recently-ratified United Nations convention, said a critical new report on the ACC system.
University of Otago geologists are preparing to take part in an international research project which may help clarify the likelihood and effects of a future massive earthquake on the Alpine Fault.
Patients who had struggled to attend medical appointments because they could not access transport have responded positively to a free community transport service launched by the Red Cross in Dunedin last year.
The Otago Settlers Museum's Pixie Town display remains highly popular, and visitors still have two days to see the free display before it closes at 4pm tomorrow.
Red Cross Southland area manager Sally Wast will fly to Brisbane today to help with flood relief co-ordination work, and her Dunedin counterpart, Karen Clements, the Red Cross Otago area manager, may also soon be on her way.
Preliminary earthworks are continuing at the site of a large centre being developed by Dunedin City Baptist Church on 7.4ha of rural land beside Dunedin's southern motorway at Concord.
Emeritus Prof Roger Paulin, of Cambridge University, yesterday added another rare book to the 28,000 volumes already held in the University of Otago central library's "special collections".
More than 1000 students flocked to the University of Otago campus yesterday for the start of the university's 11th annual summer school.
A wealthy overseas buyer could hold the key to the future of the Garvan homestead, a Tudor-style historic building near Milton long used as a boutique hotel.
As countries throughout the world grapple with urgent shared challenges, including climate change, former Dunedin academic Prof Mark Olssen is urging a rethink of outdated concepts of global community.
More than 10,000 people are expected to attend two-day gala events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Brighton district, near Dunedin, later this month.
University of Otago historian Associate Prof John Stenhouse remains unconvinced switching control of New Zealand's national archives back to the Department of Internal Affairs will improve their protection.
A Dunedin teenager has won a Royal Society of New Zealand award for his study of the salt-tolerant grass which grows at a salt lake near Middlemarch.
Award-winning University of Otago scientist Prof Frank Griffin believes Otago research on deer can be further developed to bring benefits to human health, including in the fight against tuberculosis.
Otago Museum organisers hope to install a sophisticated $300,000 radio tracking system this year to monitor collection items at the museum.
The Otago Museum has done "extremely well" in attaining about 90% of its annual service performance goals, despite difficult economic times, museum programmes director Helen Horner says.
Celebrated cook Alison Holst, who spent the first 30 years of her life in Dunedin and has retained close links with the city, was ''overwhelmed'' to be named a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
A leading international specialist in print culture, Dr Keith Maslen (84), is delighted to receive the ONZM honour.
They may live in different countries, but over the years Swiss resident Patrick Gyger and Dunedin-born cultural director and experimental sound artist Honor Harger have learned a thing or two about maintaining a good long-distance relationship.
New University of Otago research has prompted convicted child abuser Peter Ellis to lodge a fresh petition to the Governor-General for a full pardon