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Working to prevent ‘gut-wrenching’ loss
A trio of grassroots organisations have teamed up to save a North Dunedin community hub from being swept from under their feet.
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Ecotago project enters new phase
Ecotago project enters new phase
The Tomahawk Lagoon project has moved into a new phase this year for the Ecotago Charitable Trust, which has shifted its focus towards supporting project-based learning and riparian planting.
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Unusual backdrop to DCC plan hearing
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Unusual backdrop to DCC plan hearing
Walk-outs, insults, political manoeuvring and cackling councillors. It was anything but your usual Dunedin City Council meeting.
Study provides data on life with ME
Study provides data on life with ME
A new study examining the challenges faced by people with chronic illness highlights areas for improvement.
Otago Boys’ thrilled by cadet sword gift
Otago Boys’ thrilled by cadet sword gift
A Dunedin high school has been given a cadet sword as a symbol of service by an old boy.
Boost for urgent, after-hours health services in South
Boost for urgent, after-hours health services in South
Communities in Dunedin and Invercargill will have better access to urgent and after-hours healthcare as part of a nationwide investment, the Health Minister says.
Concerns grow over workplace drug use
Concerns grow over workplace drug use
Amphetamine and opioid use is a major hazard and Dunedin is not immune to the risks.
26 'unsafe' vehicles off Dunedin roads
26 'unsafe' vehicles off Dunedin roads
Numerous vehicles have been taken off Dunedin roads after a multi-agency operation targeting illegally modified and unsafe vehicles.
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Re-elected president of Law Society
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Re-elected president of Law Society
Lawyer Frazer Barton has departed his Dunedin legal firm and been re-elected president of the Law Society just weeks after being cleared by its standards committee inquiry.
‘Crazy’ to win Shakespeare dress award
‘Crazy’ to win Shakespeare dress award
A young dressmaker impressed judges at a Shakespeare festival with her transformable Victorian design.
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Historic cottage for sale after nearly 120 years
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Historic cottage for sale after nearly 120 years
An historic wooden cottage which has been in the same family for nearly 120 years has been placed on the open market.
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Rare diagnosis sparked uni goal
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Rare diagnosis sparked uni goal
How would you react if you were diagnosed with a rare degenerative muscle disease?
Paramedic worried for unsafe driver
Paramedic worried for unsafe driver
A critical care paramedic almost wiped off the road by a woman driving in the wrong lane on Three Mile Hill Rd says it is only a matter of time before she is involved in an accident.
Just a little off the top
Just a little off the top
Workers have begun deconstructing the 118-year-old Dunedin Gasworks Museum brick by brick.
Man found not culpable over sex tape
Man found not culpable over sex tape
A government employee who made a sex tape with a woman he met through his work has been cleared of criminal culpability.
Durban poet awarded literary residency
Durban poet awarded literary residency
A South African poet has been awarded the Dunedin City of Literature residency.
Awards for ODT: Campaign ‘journalism at its best’
Campaign ‘journalism at its best’
The Otago Daily Times has won four awards at the Voyager Media Awards, including metropolitan newspaper of the year.
Stalwart of Otago rugby remembered
Stalwart of Otago rugby remembered
Otago rugby stalwart and one-test All Black Tuppy Diack died in Dunedin yesterday.
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Govt gives Mosgiel port $8.2m
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Govt gives Mosgiel port $8.2m
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he doesn't want to "get caught in the middle of a cockfight" between two competing inland port projects despite the govt financially backing the Mosgiel option.
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Hillside reopening sign of ‘belief’
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Hillside reopening sign of ‘belief’
The return of Hillside Workshops is a statement of the government’s "belief in the city of Dunedin", deputy prime minister Winston Peters says.