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Shuffles continue at top of hospital project

Piles await the Dunedin hospital’s inpatient building while people at the top of the 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

Hunt Mate founder Tristan Corbett (right) shares some hunting wisdom with University of Otago...

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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

Act New Zealand leader David Seymour. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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

An intruder wearing a blue mask was one of two burglars caught on camera breaking into the...

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

Outram School bus driver Ken Schumacher and brothers Walter, 8, (left) and George Morrisey, 5,...

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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’

In a series of posts published on Twitter on October 12 a person who went by the pseudonym...

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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

Tūhura Otago Museum marketing manager Charlie Buchan with a fossilised plesiosaur skull, which...

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

OceanaGold’s Macraes mine northwest of Dunedin. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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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

Callum Flett lines up another exhibition-quality photograph after one of his images was selected...

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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

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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

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.

'Nowhere near enough': Bus hub victim's dad slams killer's sentence

Family and supporters of Enere McLaren-Taana outside court after the sentencing. Photo: Gerard O...

'Nowhere near enough': Bus hub victim's dad slams killer's sentence

The dad of a teen stabbed to death at the city’s bus hub says the 14-year-old killer's jail sentence of three years and three months is "nowhere near enough".

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Dunedin bus fire deliberately lit

The house bus front and driver’s side. PHOTO: NZ POLICE

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Dunedin bus fire deliberately lit

A fire investigator has ruled a bus fire on a residential street in Dunedin was arson.

Dunedin woman denies manslaughter over child's death

Dunedin woman denies manslaughter over child's death

A Dunedin woman has denied a charge of manslaughter in relation to a six-year-old.

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Needle exchange ‘saved’ life

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Needle exchange ‘saved’ life

A worried drug user says a Dunedin needle-exchange service in line for the axe has saved her life more than once.

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Protesters kept out of Act public meeting

Demonstrators march in a loop around Dunedin's Distinction Hotel where deputy prime minister and...

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Protesters kept out of Act public meeting

Two dozen bookings for a public meeting with David Seymour in Dunedin had to be cancelled after being identified as "very likely" to be disruptive, Act New Zealand says.

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