Otago Polytechnic has pumped close to $1 billion into Dunedin’s economy in the past five years, due to strong student numbers and a multimillion-dollar building project.
The South has recorded its second-highest number of suicides in more than a decade, sparking concern about how the region’s vulnerable are being cared for.
Twelve months on, Daisy Hudson and Craig Baxter return to Lake Ohau Village to see how residents have begun to rebuild in the wake of one of New Zealand’s worst fires.