Mining company Plaman Resources Ltd has withdrawn its application to the Overseas Investment Office to purchase 432 hectares of land near Middlemarch for its diatomite mine.
From stargazing to studying microscopic organisms, the director of Otago Museum and a teaching fellow at the University of Otago have been made Companions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
A second pedestrian has been hit by a car, this time in South Dunedin, following the hospitalisation of a pedestrian who was hit by a car in George St this morning.
Protesters marched from the Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon before blocking the city's northbound one-way street yesterday as they returned, showing their support for the Ihumatao "protectors".
A new, non-surgical way of fitting women who have just given birth with IUDs may soon be accessible to doctors, midwives and other birth attendants globally, and could save tens of thousands of lives.
Boris Johnson's Brexit promises are bound to fall flat, a University of Otago academic says of Britain's new PM - and he predicts Mr Johnson's stint in the top job will be brief.
As flu season continues, the university's Student Health Service is adding extra clinics- and the clinic's nurse manager says the flu season appears to be getting later and later each year.
Cromwell College and some of Otago's area schools say a Government plan to centralise New Zealand's polytechnics would be fixing a system that ''isn't broken''.
Bowel cancer is the gastrointestinal cancer most commonly diagnosed - but an oncologist and cancer researcher wants to raise awareness of a number of other potentially deadly forms.