The curtain came down at Carisbrook last night for the final rugby test at the hallowed ground, where the All Blacks comfortably accounted for Fiji, 60-14.
Student watering-hole the Gardens Tavern is to be given a new lease of life by the University of Otago, which plans to redevelop the popular former pub as a "study and social centre".
Funding for state highway transport projects within Otago and Southland could be compromised by a decision to rank State Highway 1 between Dunedin and Invercargill in a secondary tier of nationally important routes.
Forty-four Hillside employees finished their jobs at the landmark South Dunedin engineering outfit yesterday, the culmination of a six-week long KiwiRail redundancy process which one union official has labelled "a debacle".
Suburban passenger trains were overwhelmed by a huge response from school holiday commuters, who crowded Dunedin Railway Station platforms yesterday for a rare opportunity to travel by train.
A self-imposed spell in a "prison cell" ended for Otago University Students Association president Logan Edgar yesterday, when he emerged from a cage where he has lived for almost two days.
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The controversial question of voluntary student membership (VSM) was debated by politicians at the University of Otago Union Hall, yesterday.
Representatives from the 112 clubs and societies at the University of Otago pitched their causes to students at the Union Hall yesterday.
Hillside union delegates have labelled a visit by KiwiRail chief executive Jim Quinn to Dunedin this morning as "morally repugnant'' given the expected confirmation of 40 job cuts at the South Dunedin engineering outfit later this afternoon.
A 55-year-old Dunedin man was being held in police custody last night after a "disgraceful effort" which allegedly involved a drunken joyride in a stolen car around Otago Peninsula, ending in a crash off Highcliff Rd.
Repairs to the surface of the $13.1 million State Highway 88 realignment behind the Forsyth Barr Stadium have been needed since it opened to traffic on Monday.
Keeping the drinks cold was low on the list of priorities for the hundreds of student revellers at the annual Castle St keg party yesterday.
The "stellar contribution" of departing vice-chancellor Prof Sir David Skegg was applauded during a valedictory tribute at a meeting of the University of Otago council, yesterday.
There was a rush for university textbooks among first-year health science students, who queued up to ensure they did not miss out on an in-demand paper at the St David lecture theatre yesterday.
Commuters making the trip between Port Chalmers and Dunedin yesterday along the recently completed State Highway 88 link had a new view of the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
Kiwirail management is about to begin its final deliberations on which Hillside jobs are likely to go, after a consultation period with employees and union delegates ended yesterday - the eve of a public rally campaigning for a change of heart.
Speakers are lining up to support the Save Hillside jobs campaign at a public rally in the Octagon today.
Radio One is due to resume broadcasting programmes today, after a week spent off the air in protest at a proposal it be sold.
Retired engineer Lex Smith (83) intends to be front and centre in the rank and file of campaigners at the Save Hillside public rally in the Octagon today.