Dunedin

Ovation for departing planner

It may be the only time in local government history a city planner has been given a standing ovation in a packed room for his farewell speech.

Dunedin firm wins courthouse contract

Dunedin firm wins courthouse contract

The $20 million restoration and upgrade of Dunedin’s historic courthouse will be carried out by a Dunedin construction company.
Rise in winter tourism

Rise in winter tourism

Dunedin's winter tourism push may be bearing fruit, with a strong rise in tourism expenditure for August.
Flaws in funding formula ‘well known’

Flaws in funding formula ‘well known’

Health officials privately admit the health funding formula does not work for some health boards, departing Green Party MP Kevin Hague says.

Nightclub owner 'betrayed' by theft

Home detention for theft from Dunedin nightclub

A Dunedin nightclub manager who fleeced his friend and business owner of more than $20,000 has been sentenced to home detention.

Q&A: Olivia Hadlow

The ODT asks some questions of Dunedin Arts Festival performer Olivia Hadlow.

Light directs play’s attention

Fortune Theatre lighting designer Garry Keirle paints a bulb in the Fortune Theatre Studio for...

Light directs play’s attention

Light is being restrained and directed for the Samuel Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape as part of Arts Festival Dunedin.

Dark and mysterious in virtual world

Transmedia artist Simon Wilkinson, of England, offers a bottle outside his virtual reality...

Dark and mysterious in virtual world

Unsettled yet strangely relaxed is how Arts Festival Dunedin virtual reality performance The Cube had me feeling yesterday.

Let arts festival begin and give left brain a rest

The wait is over. It’s been two long years since the Arts Festival Dunedin team last lured some of the world’s great creative types to our fair city

Hotel foundations uncovered

Archaeologists have uncovered the foundations of a hotel which operated in Dunedin’s Great King St 130 years ago.

Life membership for long service

Life membership for long service

Lesley Prescott (78) has spent more than 30 years working with and serving women in Otago, but she says she still has more work to do.

Line of duty

Detective Jenepher Glover gives the address during the Police Remembrance Day Service at Dunedin’s First Church yesterday.

Call to front up over breakwater plan

Port Otago asked to explain changed plan

Port Otago has been challenged to front up and explain why an agreed $290,000 breakwater has been overtaken by a $2 million groyne proposal.

Rise in winter tourism

Dunedin's winter tourism push may be bearing fruit, with a strong rise in tourism expenditure for August.

DHBs preparing for strikes

Contingency plans for a junior doctors’ strike are "well advanced" in the country’s district health boards

Flaws in funding formula ‘well known’

Health officials privately admit the health funding formula does not work for some health boards, departing Green Party MP Kevin Hague says.

The cast of The Complete History of the Royal New Zealand Navy Abridged and Commander Claire and the Pirates of Provence arrive in Otago Harbour yesterday for their Arts Festival Dunedin run beginning today.

Ovation for departing planner

Dunedin City Council heritage policy planner Glen Hazelton speaks last night in the St Paul’s...

Ovation farewells planner

It may be the only time in local government history a city planner has been given a standing ovation in a packed room for his farewell speech.

Dunedin firm wins courthouse contract

Amalgamated Builders managing director Richard Johnston and Justice Minister Amy Adams outside...

Dunedin firm wins courthouse contract

The $20 million restoration and upgrade of Dunedin’s historic courthouse will be carried out by a Dunedin construction company.

Courthouse work set to begin

Courthouse restoration set to begin

The restoration of Dunedin’s historic courthouse will start next month after the announcement today of the contractors who will undertake the work.

Shocking price of restoring beach

A Southern Right Whale off Te Rauone Beach last week, where residents have had to shore-up the...

Shocking price of restoring beach

Port Otago has shocked a community group striving to raise $290,000 for beach-saving repairs, with an unexpected proposal for an up to $2 million alternative.

Dunedin officer added to fallen

Dunedin Police Constable James Butler, who died in 1938 after being assaulted by a prisoner, is...

Dunedin officer added to fallen

A former Dunedin policeman's name will be added to the list of fallen officers commemorated at Police Remembrance Day today.

Paralympians get mayor’s congratulations

Otago's athletics Paralympians met Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull at an official welcoming ceremony in the mayoral office at the Dunedin City Council yesterday.

500 Otago infantry killed in one month

Juliana Barbosa, of Brazil, photographs the crosses placed in the Queens Gardens by the Cenotaph...

500 Otago infantry killed in one month

A field of white crosses has been planted at Dunedin's Queens Gardens to symbolise the substantial loss of life by Otago men in the 1916 Somme campaign in northern France.

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