New Zealand university graduates will be the focus of a world-first comprehensive study, which aims to determine the ongoing effects of how university education shapes and influences lives.
Negotiations between Hillside union delegates and their KiwiRail bosses have broken down on the eve of a public rally to campaign against proposed jobs cuts at the South Dunedin engineering outfit.
Student perceptions about gambling were challenged during a "down-to-earth" demonstration at Otago Polytechnic yesterday, which aimed to highlight how gaming machines can shatter lives.
About 24 individual public submissions were received by the Otago Regional Council on its regional transport strategy by this week's deadline.
Construction on the $19 million State Highway 1 Caversham bypass is moving upwards, with about 1200 concrete panels being installed to provide "integral" support for three retaining walls.
Public speakers can sometimes experience such a severe case of nerves they wish they could just disappear.
A sword-handling workshop held on Saturday as part of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Medieval Midwinter Festival, organised in conjunction with the Dunedin Medieval Society.
There was no such thing as "ladies first" for bargain-hunters Tama Braithwaite and Jeff Robinson when the doors opened for a bustling crowd of buyers at the Presbyterian's Fabric Sale fundraiser at Burns Hall, First Church on Saturday.
Emerging chess players gathered to contest the Otago-Southland Interschool Teams Chess Championship at Otago Boys' High School during the weekend.
A group of Dunedin bus drivers is coming to grips with a video-camera training system, which uses "big brother" technology to monitor their moves behind the wheel.
Dunedin and Queenstown taxi firms have differing outlooks on the costs associated with legislation changes, which will make protective security measures for drivers compulsory.
Hillside workers were united in their condemnation of KiwiRail's proposal to axe up to 40 jobs at the South Dunedin engineering plant, when they rallied together at a union meeting yesterday.
Dunedin police are praising the quick thinking of a 15-year-old boy who helped track down a man allegedly involved in the robbery and attempted robbery of three city businesses in the past fortnight.
University of Otago scientist Dr Phil Bishop has been appointed to help lead an international forum which aims to address the alarming decline in amphibians around the world.
Hillside Engineering employees walked away dismayed after meeting KiwiRail bosses at Carisbrook yesterday, where they were told 40 workers would probably lose their jobs.
A 29-year-old motorcyclist was arrested near Owaka yesterday evening, after police found him crashed in a roadside ditch, more than 200km south of where he was first seen allegedly travelling at excessive speeds.
Completion of new KiwiRail wagons, constructed at Dunedin's Hillside Engineering, has renewed calls from the Rail Maritime Transport Union for contracts to continue for New Zealand workers rather than out-sourcing to China.
Proposed legislation changes to tighten controls on freedom camping in New Zealand may be influencing rental campervan companies to review their fleet requirements to include more self-contained facilities.
Hillside Workshop employees will launch a publicity campaign alongside the Rail and Maritime Transport Union to garner support for a bid to try to overturn a KiwiRail decision to cut 40 jobs at the South Dunedin engineering "institution".
A south Dunedin shopkeeper "chased off" an alleged offender who presented a knife and demanded money at his Prince Albert Rd dairy last night, police say.
