Otago regional councillors have settled on their pay rates for the coming year, but their chairwoman has hinted at changes for anyone failing to pull their weight.
A proposal to allow the University of Otago to raise its tuition fees by 6% next year is on the table, as the institution grapples with squeezed government funding.
Warning: distressing content. A helicopter pilot and first civilian to land on Whakaari/White Island after a deadly eruption in 2019 has spoken of the chaos of tending to survivors.
One of the year's most powerful storms in the Philippines, Super Typhoon Fung-wong has killed four people, authorities say, as they begin assessing the damage.
A large wildfire burning through New Zealand’s oldest national park has probably been extinguished after steady rainfall helped to suppress the flames, authorities say.
By Bella Craig of RNZSome people receiving the pension are being forced to choose between eating dinner and paying off their debt after taking on student loans later in life.
A woman who visited doctors after suffering “horrendous stomach pains” for years only discovered she had bowel cancer through a follow-up appointment for an unrelated melanoma.
A pair of Dunedin teenagers leapt from a moving car after "the brakes went soft" as the vehicle hurtled down a steep central city hill and towards a sharp bend.