The Otago Settlers Museum is "doing things differently" during its redevelopment project, including using innovative methods to kill any borer in museum artefacts.
Labour state services spokesman Grant Robertson predicts growing controversy over plans to merge Archives New Zealand and the National Library into the Internal Affairs Department.
The University of Otago Law Faculty is sending about 50 law books and journals to the Gambia, in West Africa, to support the development of a library at a new university law school.
Dunedin is benefiting from the cross-cultural links provided by 11 overseas-born residents who became New Zealand citizens at a ceremony this week, Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin said.
Otago and the University of Otago seem to produce New Zealand ambassadors to Indonesia.
The stirring strains of Amazing Grace sounded near the University of Otago clocktower building yesterday, as law and arts student Liam Kernaghan marked his scholarship success with a skirl of the pipes.
Otago Museum organisers are optimistic that international consultancy work and improved chances to sell interactive science exhibits overseas will result from a recent science conference.
Thousands of shoppers, including many out-of-town visitors, flocked to central Dunedin yesterday during busy Easter Monday trading.
The poor quality of a Cabinet paper which advocates merging Archives New Zealand and the Internal Affairs Department is "quite alarming", a Dunedin librarian, John Timmins, says.
Children's entertainers the Wiggles again displayed their charm as live performers and also showed their star pulling power, attracting more than 2200 youngsters and family members to two shows in Dunedin yesterday.
A 22-year-old homosexual attacked by a mob in George St says "gay bashing" is on the rise in Dunedin.
Reports of their imminent death may be greatly exaggerated.
Closer links between New Zealand's four biggest museums are starting to pay off, Otago Museum officials say.
The Dunedin Gasworks Museum's endangered fitting shop has been stabilised and strengthened, and restoration work will be completed in about two months, organisers say.
Governor-general Sir Anand Satyanand and his wife, Susan, Lady Satyanand, attended the first of two de Carle lectures at the University of Otago yesterday.
The Government has ended weeks of rumours and uncertainty by stating that it has no plans to cut equity funding which supports Maori and Pacific tertiary students and students with disabilities.
Once neglected, the former Otago Harbour ferry Elsie Evans came another step closer this week to taking to the harbour again.
Many people do not realise that some prescription drugs can contribute to "dry mouth" or have other adverse effects on oral health, Prof Robin Seymour, a leading British dental researcher, says.
University of Otago research which aims to reduce chronic dental disease among Maori children has been boosted by more than $2.3 million in Health Research Council (HRC) funding.
Chief executive Bob Houliston and three long-serving employees this week celebrated working at a Dunedin precision engineering business for a combined total of more than 120 years.