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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

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

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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Fine for rat infestation ‘slap on the wrist’

A rat (and its reflection in a mirrored shelf partition) on a supermarket shelf, taken by a staff...

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Fine for rat infestation ‘slap on the wrist’

A worker who blew the whistle on the Woolworths rat infestation says a $33,000 fine is ‘‘a slap on the wrist’’.

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Rural fuel theft likely to increase, Fed Farmers says

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Rural fuel theft likely to increase, Fed Farmers says

Thieves striking under the cover of darkness stole 1000 litres of diesel from a Southland truck yard as the country grapples with skyrocketing fuel prices.

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