John Gibb

Dunedin resident Peter Williamson moved out of his oil painting comfort zone at the weekend when he tackled his first big canvas, focusing on a historic building in Dunedin North.

David Purcell, of Christchurch, was "pretty chuffed" when his incurve chrysanthemum entry "Kay Woolman" won the Champion of Champions award at the South Island Chrysanthemum Show, held in...

A cyclist sustained moderate injuries after a crash between a bicycle and a vehicle on Cape Saunders Rd on Otago Peninsula today. 

Prof Vernon Squire has retired from the University of Otago as a recognised leader in international polar sea ice research, but his work was once viewed as too obscure.

Dunedin visual artist Philip Madill reflects on winning the Supreme Award at the Cleveland National Art Awards, presented by the Otago Art Society in the city last night.

The Otago Museum faces raising at least $1 million to replace a roof in its original 1877 building in Great King St, and at the Tropical Forest butterfly house.

It's ''gutting'' the Mosgiel Memorial RSA restaurant and bar are closing only a few years after the club's $1.2 million redevelopment, Sarah Davie-Nitis says

The Mosgiel Memorial RSA has announced it will close its restaurant and bar, given dwindling membership, and amid tough trading pressures for RSA hospitality operations elsewhere in the country.

Yesterday's clear viewing of a rare lunar occultation of Saturn also highlights the potential benefits of dark skies tourism in Dunedin, astronomer Ian Griffin says.

Visiting researcher Lawrence Wenner has taken issue with several American academics who recently staged a major hoax in which several fake scholarly articles were published.

Early this morning, Otago Museum director and astronomer Dr Ian Griffin gained a "great'' view of a rare celestial event, the planet Saturn being eclipsed by the moon.

Dunedin people interested in watching a rare eclipse of Saturn by the moon can do so from about 12.45am on Friday at the Beverly-Begg Observatory at Robin Hood Park.

Dunedin international relations specialist Robert Patman has welcomed as ''absolutely spot on'' a New Zealand and French initiative to stop social media being used to promote terrorism and violent...

Dunedin physicists have opened up new research and technology opportunities by bringing two individual atoms close together through laser control.

After its own terrorism attacks, Sri Lanka could learn a great deal from New Zealand's earlier response, particularly in leadership empathy and effectiveness, a Sri Lankan researcher says.

University of Otago graduate Emily McEwan has received the New Zealand Planning Institute's national Wallace Ross Award for research.

A big surge in participation and an increase in fun activities resulted in a successful "Fresh 19'' Easter Camp for about 200 young people at the Taieri A&P Showgrounds, organisers said.