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    ACC call for biker, driver safety

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    ACC call for biker, driver safety

    The first three months of each year is traditionally when the sun decides to come out and the heat comes on, creating the perfect environment to ride a motorcycle.

    Minor injuries in two-car crash

    The crash happened at the intersection of Shore St and Portobello Rd. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

    Minor injuries in two-car crash

    Emergency services were called to a two-car collision in Dunedin this morning.

    Fresh air fun

    Fresh air fun

    Taieri Mouth friends Leon Perquin (left) and Kiptyn Garner, both 12, enjoy some air time on the Signal Hill mountainbike tracks yesterday. 

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    Signage dispute ‘targeted’

    Andrew Simms. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN

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    Signage dispute ‘targeted’

    Dunedin's highest-polling councillor says the city council’s failed bid to pursue him for legal costs relating to election sign rules was "vindictive".

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    Family runs away with hill titles

    Celebrating their triple win at the Aramoana League’s sports day cliff run are (from left) Anna...

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    Family runs away with hill titles

    Winning runs in the family for one fleet-footed Dunedin trio named three-way champions of this year’s Aramoana cliff run.

    Thrillers, mysteries the most borrowed

    Dunedin City Libraries library assistant Kelcie Watkins-Dooley checks out a stack of books by...

    Thrillers, mysteries the most borrowed

    Dunedinites love a good murder, and the city’s librarians have the receipts to prove it.

    Memorable arrival starts the year

    Carla Probst, pictured in the Queen Mary maternity wing of Dunedin Hospital yesterday, welcomed...

    Memorable arrival starts the year

    Carla Probst will never forget the first day of 2026 — not least because she spent part of it in labour in a helicopter.

    Caution advised as third-party services 'price gouge' airfares

    The two airfares into Dunedin cost about $600 more through the third-party agency. Photo: ODT

    Caution advised as third-party services 'price gouge' airfares

    A Dunedin woman is urging people to check they are not booking flights through a third-party agency, after her elderly mother paid $1300 for two one-way seats with bags from Wellington.

    Police happy with New Year's revellers in South

    A band entertains a small crowd on the waterfront in Wanaka on New Year's Eve. Photo: Gregor...

    Police happy with New Year's revellers in South

    Police say they are pleased with the behaviour of New Year's Eve revellers around the country.

    Dunedinites gather to welcome 2026

    Skies clear as young and old gather for Dunedin New Year's Eve celebrations

    Dunedin experienced something akin to four seasons in one day on New Year’s Eve — but at least it remained dry for most of the evening's festivities.

    Search over as calls for help likely from nearby address

    Search over as calls for help likely from nearby address

    A search operation found no signs of trouble after a person was heard yelling for help off a Dunedin track this morning.

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    Pub’s new avian mascot comes home to roost

    Concord Inn co-owners Jane Downing and Warren Bremner stand in front of the pub’s new entranceway...

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    Pub’s new avian mascot comes home to roost

    A googly-eyed rooster riding astride a motorcycle is among the latest additions in a Dunedin pub’s nearly $800,000 makeover.

    Beating addiction spurred tireless mental health stalwart’s work across NZ

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    Beating addiction spurred tireless mental health stalwart’s work across NZ

    Overcoming addiction in her mid-20s inspired Deb Fraser-Komene to help youth to do the same.

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    Landfill’s impact on lagoon likely ‘toxic’

    The Kaikorai estuary could be a nature haven and city asset if water pollution ends. Photo:...

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    Landfill’s impact on lagoon likely ‘toxic’

    A historic landfill is likely having a "toxic impact" on the troubled Kaikorai Lagoon, documents show.

    Recognition credited to all who gave time to projects

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    Recognition credited to all who gave time to projects

    Graeme Elliot is a humble man, and when he found out about receiving a New Year Honour, the chief emotion felt was "embarrassment".

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    Millionaire’s luxury superyacht moored in Dunedin

    Luxury on water for families aboard the Teleost superyacht, which is in Dunedin. PHOTO: STEPHEN...

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    Millionaire’s luxury superyacht moored in Dunedin

    Fancy a week-long cruise around New Zealand with your family on a chartered super-yacht?

    No ‘ODT’ tomorrow

    No ‘ODT’ tomorrow

    There will be no publication of the Otago Daily Times tomorrow, New Year’s Day.

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    Friendship as important as music at folk festival

    Whare Flat Folk Festival organisers past and present (from left) Sue Harkness and Siobhán Dillon...

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    Friendship as important as music at folk festival

    Dunedin's renowned, now half-a-century-old Whare Flat Folk Festival had, and still very much has, "a family atmosphere", a former organiser says.

    Cruise visitors 'really impressed’ with city

    Seabourn Quest passengers Steve and Joanne Kicinski take some time to experience Dunedin...

    Cruise visitors 'really impressed’ with city

    Stepping off a luxury cruise ship and on to the firm ground of Dunedin on a cold, blustery day proved just the tonic for visitors Joanne and Steve Kicinski.

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    First sea lion pup of breeding season born

    Tui, the 6-year-old sea lion, with her pup — the first to be born in Dunedin this season (this...

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    First sea lion pup of breeding season born

    Just two weeks after scaring the living daylights out of a Bedford St family by taking shelter on their front doorstep, Tui the sea lion has given birth to Dunedin’s first pup of the season.
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