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Student avoids conviction over crash
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Student avoids conviction over crash
A student who crashed his car and blamed his mate has avoided a conviction because he wants to be an engineer.
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Shared passion for outdoors channelled into business
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Shared passion for outdoors channelled into business
A pair of Dunedin high school mates have turned their passion for the outdoors into a successful multimedia business.
Show to fundraise for dance champs
Show to fundraise for dance champs
A Dunedin dance school is calling on the community to help them get to the "Olympics of hip-hop".
Toroa chicks weigh in at 10.2kg, 11kg
Toroa chicks weigh in at 10.2kg, 11kg
Department of Conservation rangers weigh a juvenile toroa (northern royal albatross) at Taiaroa Head on Otago Peninsula.
Proud to sing anthem
Proud to sing anthem
A Dunedin choir member was proud to sing New Zealand’s national anthem on a global stage after winning a top award.
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Shuffles continue at top of hospital project
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Shuffles continue at top of hospital project
A fast-rising bureaucrat brought in to helm the government’s reset of the new Dunedin hospital project has been dumped from the inpatient build, the Otago Daily Times understands.
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Hunter helping others to fill their freezers
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Hunter helping others to fill their freezers
As the cost of living bites, an Outram man says he has been surprised to find many new hunters want to learn how to gather meat from the land instead of collecting trophies.
Positively polarising
Positively polarising
Controversy has never done Act New Zealand leader David Seymour any harm in the past, and he does not think it will do him any harm in the future either, he tells political...
Obituary: strove to improve rural medicine
Obituary: strove to improve rural medicine
Rural healthcare workers and other first responders had always done their best when dealing with medical emergencies in extremely trying circumstances.
Teens arrested over South D dairy raid
Teens arrested over South D dairy raid
Two 15-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with a brazen Dunedin dairy robbery, police say.
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Bus driver puts up signs to slow traffic
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Bus driver puts up signs to slow traffic
A Dunedin school bus driver compelled to "do something" to improve the safety of the children who take his bus has taken matters into his own hands.
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City professional admits insurance fraud
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City professional admits insurance fraud
A respected Dunedin professional has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud but will fight to avoid a conviction.
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Non-resident ratepayer votes give ‘disproportionate power’
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Non-resident ratepayer votes give ‘disproportionate power’
A Dunedin mayoral candidate is calling for the abolition of a law granting some voters more than one say, in "pretty direct violation" of New Zealand’s democratic principles.
Jurassic snafu ranks Otago 'dinosaur' second
Jurassic snafu ranks Otago 'dinosaur' second best in world
In a (pre)historic moment for Tūhura Otago Museum, its dinosaur exhibit has been ranked the second-best in the world.
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Doc reverses 'catastrophic' Macraes mine decision
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Doc reverses 'catastrophic' Macraes mine decision
The Department of Conservation has reversed a decision that would have been "catastrophic" for OceanaGold’s Macraes mine and put hundreds of jobs at risk.
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Photo in exhibition a source of pride
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Photo in exhibition a source of pride
Living with cerebral palsy and profound deafness means Callum Flett does not have the luxury of easy communication.
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Dunedin massage business exploited 'particularly vulnerable' migrant
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Dunedin massage business exploited 'particularly vulnerable' migrant
A Dunedin massage business that exploited an "isolated and unsupported" migrant worker has to pay her nearly $90,000 after they underpaid her, doctored documents and forced her to resign.
Man spat on by teens in Maccas fracas
Man spat on by teens in Maccas fracas
A Dunedin man who stepped in when a group of 20 teens was causing a ruckus in a McDonald’s was spat on and had soap squirted on him.
Dunedin driver flees after crashing into police car
Dunedin driver flees after crashing into police car
A Dunedin man is on the run after crashing into a police patrol vehicle and fleeing the scene.
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'Insensitive': Police apologise to aspiring officer
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'Insensitive': Police apologise to aspiring officer
Police have apologised for using an outdated medical term to describe an aspiring officer, but stand by their decision to reject his application.