Dunedin

The Government’s recommitment to Dunedin’s Hillside Workshops has been welcomed, and there are hopes further development will follow.

More asbestos dust has been found on the seventh floor of the Dunedin Civic Centre and city council staff who normally work there will stay away while an investigation continues.

A causeway from the first decade of European settlement in Dunedin could be displayed in the city’s Wall St mall next month.

Southern cancer patients are dying and Health Minister Andrew Little needs to step in and save them, patient advocate Melissa Vining says.

A Dunedin man who sexually offended against two boys has avoided a conviction, paving the way for a career as a pilot.

Winter is supposed to be just around the corner, but the MetService is forecasting abnormally hot and humid weather for much of Otago over the weekend.

"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush, stumble and fall."

Children should be both seen and heard, according to Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft.

Otago Museum is evaluating a request for the return of Aboriginal artefacts to Australia, but there are no plans to return its Egyptian mummy.