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    Poor forecast puts paid to cruise ship visit

    Discovery Princess with a capacity of 3660 passengers and 1346 crew dwarfs the smaller Viking...

    Poor forecast puts paid to cruise ship visit

    Today's scheduled visit of the cruise ship Anthem of the Seas, carrying more than 4000 passengers, has been cancelled due to the forecast weather conditions.

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    Homeless people in old depot ‘not a fix’

    Homeless people have moved into a former Dunedin City Council bus depot garage in Princes St....

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    Homeless people in old depot ‘not a fix’

    The emergence of homeless people setting up tents at the former Princes St bus depot is yet another sign the problem is getting worse, Dunedin’s night shelter operator says.

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    Celebrating Pasifika elders and knowledge

    Christiana Moeroa, from the Cook Islands group, performs at Moana Nui at Forsyth Barr Stadium in...

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    Celebrating Pasifika elders and knowledge

    Bringing together generations, learning from your elders and passing on knowledge was the theme for this year’s Moana Nui Festival.

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    Unravelling the city’s elected enigma

    Dunedin City councillor Benedict Ong talks in front of Otago University’s clock tower. PHOTO:...

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    Unravelling the city’s elected enigma

    Elected on the back of a bank-rolled campaign making economic promises, Dunedin Cr Benedict Ong’s reputation has become more circus entertainer than astute international banker, Mary Williams reports.

    Person hospitalised after crash near Green Island

    PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

    Person hospitalised after crash near Green Island

    One person was taken to Dunedin Hospital after a crash near Green Island on Sunday.

    Closure to leave over 30 jobless

    Heinz Wattie’s is closing the Gregg’s factory in Dunedin. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

    Closure to leave over 30 jobless

    Closure of the Gregg’s coffee factory in Dunedin will cost more than 30 people their jobs.

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    Council staff — on or off the agenda?

    "Staff work here as part of our team to serve and deliver for our city so, please, please,...

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    Council staff — on or off the agenda?

    Councillors were advised at a DCC budgets meeting to be cautious over how they spoke about staff. Grant Miller looks into perceived stifling of debate.

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    Call to revive housing project

    Duncan Eddy says long-standing state houses were demolished and families moved out of the...

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    Call to revive housing project

    A community representative has urged the council to push for government recommitment to an axed Port Chalmers social housing project.

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    Students televising sports week

    University of Otago master of data science student and New Zealand Secondary Schools Summer...

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    Students televising sports week

    And now we are cutting to breaking sports news — about a dozen University of Otago students have set up a production room to televise the New Zealand Secondary Schools Summer Tournament Week.

    Wild celebration returning

    Vibrant fabrics are displayed at last year’s Wild Dunedin Festival of Nature NatureDome event by ...

    Wild celebration returning

    It is set to be a wild ride as an event celebrating nature returns next month.

    Graft from cadaver caused rare condition

    A magnetic resonance image (MRI) shows the brain of a Dunedin Hospital patient who was recently...

    Graft from cadaver caused rare condition

    A patient given a dural graft from a cadaver at Dunedin Hospital as a child in the 1980s has recently been diagnosed as having iatrogenic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (iCAA).

    Beachlands driver death 'huge loss for Otago'

    Beachlands Speedway is a private racing venue in Waldronville. Photo: GREGOR RICHARDSON

    Beachlands driver death 'huge loss for Otago'

    The NZ speedway community is mourning the death of a well-known racing driver at Beachlands, near Dunedin.

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    Jail term extended after attack

    Levi Reuben in the dock in 2016. PHOTO: ALDEN WILLIAMS/FAIRFAX NZ

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    Jail term extended after attack

    A man convicted of manslaughter for a fatal prison assault has had more time added to his sentence after instigating another attack behind bars.

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    Hey, you behind the shed

    Two weka, thought to be a male and female, spotted wandering, and trying to mate, outside Logan...

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    Hey, you behind the shed

    A pair of birds getting frisky on school grounds is a promising sight, an ornithologist says.

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    ‘I didn’t hear anything’

    The roof of a Connell St house, in the Dunedin suburb of Waverley, lies on the drive after being...

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    ‘I didn’t hear anything’

    Jim Keenan has no idea what woke him up late on Thursday night.

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    Arsonist sought jail as motive for fires

    Dunedin Central Police Station. Photo: ODT files

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    Arsonist sought jail as motive for fires

    A serial firebug who set fire to Dunedin’s biggest police station said he did it to get back to jail.

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    Powerful wind causes damage in Dunedin

    A Mini was damaged after gale-force winds blew a tree on to it, in Balmacewen Rd, yesterday....

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    Powerful wind causes damage in Dunedin

    After powerful winds, reaching 146kmh, brought down trees and powerlines in parts of Dunedin yesterday, today’s weather is expected to become far more sedate.

    Ice-cream treat at Easter market

    Ice-cream treat at Easter market

    Dana Noye (left) and Amelia Dalman, both of Dunedin, sample mildly alcoholic ice-cream by Blue Cockatoo at the Easter artisan market at No8 Distillery in Bond St, Dunedin, last night. 

    Ship shape

    PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

    Ship shape

    Otago Peninsula Artists OpenArts Inc members Jan Crawford (left) and Deborah Bell admire a whimsical, nautical-themed sculpture by Robert Brown.

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    Nursing friends back together

    Retired nurses (from left) Anne Brown, Ruth Rivett-Cuthbert, Grace Milburn and Ngaire Lawrence...

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    Nursing friends back together

    Sixty-six years after they first met in Dunedin, four retired nurses finally had the opportunity to hang out together one more time.
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