Dunedin

University of Otago law graduate Oliver Hailes has gained a life-changing $300,000 Woolf Fisher Scholarship to study at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

The search for missing Dunedin man Stephen Lowe will continue today after yesterday's ''significant'' search in the Catlins turned up no results.

An Environment Court judge has described a Dunedin man's case against the owner of an award-winning heritage redevelopment as ''at best adversarial and at worst malicious''.

Staff at Tahuna Intermediate are fuming after Go Bus suggested their packed bus service to and from Otago Peninsula was canned because of declining patronage.

Port Chalmers residents appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the nine months of pile-driving due to start soon as Port Otago extends one of its wharves.

It seems there really is such a thing as a free ride.

A new member could be elected to the Strath Taieri Community Board by Christmas.

Despite being beaten with a metal pole, a shearer's pregnant partner wants to resume her relationship with her attacker after he is released from jail.

A Dunedin man who seduced a 15-year-old girl over the internet has narrowly avoided a prison term for sexual offending.

A duo has admitted kidnapping a Dunedin man and abandoning him on a rural roadside.

Police looking for a missing Dunedin man want to hear from two people who may have been tramping in the Catlins area where his car has been found.

Two brothers have admitted kidnapping a Dunedin man and abandoning him on a rural roadside.

Creating an ultra-fast broadband infrastructure for Dunedin will be as important for the city as building an electricity network was 150 years ago, Digital Community Trust chairman John Gallaher says.

A petition calling for the memorial of Dunedin photographer Riley Baker to remain in its present location is gaining support online.