John Lewis

Whether the subject matter is good or bad, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Fewer than 10% of pupils are expected to return to school today, an informal survey of Otago and Southland schools shows.

It is as safe as it has ever been for children to attend school, two University of Otago infectious disease experts say.

Some of the Dunedin City Council’s services will restart next week as the city moves into Alert Level 3.

You could not blame residents at the Bupa Windsor Park Care Home for pricking up their ears when talk started circulating about a Covid-19 capsule.

Up to half of the motels across the region are "teetering on the edge of financial collapse", the Otago Motel Association has estimated.

The Scenic Hotel Group is considering temporarily closing one of its two Dunedin hotels and has mothballed two on the West Coast as the chain’s finances take a hit from the Covid-19 pandemic.

It will be school, but not as pupils know it.

High tides combined with storm surges inundated parts of the Otago coastline last week, and forced water over beaches and sandbars into low-lying areas.

Farmers and horticulturists will once more be able to have legal fires following the removal of the total fire ban across Otago.

The total fire ban across Otago has been moved to a restricted fire season for most of the region, by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.