It is the sweet smell of success rather than that of rotting flesh which is perfuming the nostrils of Dunedin Botanic Garden staff after the successful propagation of their corpse flower.
Blue skies and bumper temperatures are on the cards for Central Otago in the first few days of 2022 as the region welcomes revellers keen to see the back of 2021.
A health boss says the Government’s mandatory vaccination order has exacerbated an ongoing shortage of trained support workers in the health care sector.
The owner of a piece of land through which part of Dunedin’s Three Peaks mountain race route goes and where a sign threatening to prosecute trespassers has appeared, says he's happy for people to use the track.