The Otago Settlers Museum will be "doing things differently", including providing more information via the internet, as well as touring exhibitions and outreach education programmes, when planned redevelopment closes much of the museum complex.
The growing popularity of the Otago Settlers Museum's Pixie Town attraction has helped the museum largely correct an earlier fall in visitor numbers.
University of Otago scientists are part of an international group which yesterday published the complete genome of the pea aphid, an achievement which could help create new weapons to fight this damaging agricultural pest.
The Tomahawk Toddlers Playgroup will vent its frustration at Tomahawk School this morning after the school withdrew its facilities as a venue for the group.
A new study showing nerve damage arising from incorrectly-administered intramuscular injections highlights the importance of anatomical training, University of Otago Prof Mark Stringer says.
Gremlins in the Otago Museum's main entry automatic counting system may be partly to blame for an apparent big drop in museum visitors last year.
The initial rush of visitors is over at the Otago Museum's Tropical Forest attraction, but organisers say its finances remain sound as a planned review of its future draws near.
Levels of "frustration and mistrust" have been increased by transferring the administration of more than 250 Dunedin-based long-term ACC claimants to offices in Alexandra and Timaru, critics say.
A $500,000 exhibition at Otago Museum, opening today, will give visitors the opportunity to get sneezed on, and smell vomit as part of a new interactive science exhibit about the human body.
University of Otago geology PhD student Felix Marx has achieved a rare honour by having a first-authored research report published in Science, one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals.
An English visitor to Dunedin, Robin Wilson, has highlighted the international significance of the city's Armstrong disappearing gun at Taiaroa Head.
A resolution is in sight for a long-running conflict with Te Papa over its earlier moves to exercise increased control over more than 350 Oldman collection artefacts long held at the Otago Museum.
A protest rally at Parliament yesterday had successfully highlighted concerns about proposed law changes to the ACC scheme, a Dunedin ACC campaigner said.
Twenty-four youngsters from the Elmgrove School, Mosgiel, will have plenty to tell their school friends today after "sleeping over" at the Otago Settlers Museum last night.
Sid's great escape from the Portobello Aquarium is about to become permanent.
A controversial exercise scientist from the United States is running rings around the age-old "myth" that if you are overweight you are unhealthy.
The years are being peeled away and colours from the past are re-emerging at the Otago Settlers Museum's former NZR bus station building, thanks to some painstaking historical detective work.
More than 40 long-term ACC claimants in Otago have been asked to undergo further medical assessments or other tests in recent months, in what critics say is a "return to the bad old days" of removing claimants from the scheme.
How many medical reports is enough?Dunedin resident Mel Hollis, a long-term recipient of ACC weekly earnings-related compensation, says he is being asked to undergo his 63rd medical report in 18 years of ACC support.
Sixty years of service to the Roman Catholic Church and community by Brother Graeme Donaldson were celebrated at a Mass of Thanksgiving in his honour in Dunedin at the weekend.