Memorable arrival starts the year
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.
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Caution advised as third-party services 'price gouge' airfares
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
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
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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
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’
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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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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Proof arguing can be productive
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Proof arguing can be productive
Campbell Kidd and Abby Bowmar love to argue.
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Teenagers tried to carjack taxi: officer
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Teenagers tried to carjack taxi: officer
Two teenagers who allegedly punched and hit a Port Chalmers taxi driver with a glass bottle on Christmas Day were trying to bring open alcohol into the vehicle, police say.
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Aim to slow deterioration as we age
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Aim to slow deterioration as we age
Most of us have heard of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and the Christchurch Health and Development Study. Reporter John Lewis takes a closer look at a...
Daylight break-in foiled in minutes - police
Daylight break-in foiled in minutes - police
Police are thanking members of the public for their help leading to four youths being apprehended for a burglary in central Dunedin today.
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City to funk it up for New Year’s Eve
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Dunedin to funk it up for New Year’s Eve
A high-energy party has been forecast for New Year’s Eve in Dunedin and organisers are hopeful the weather will co-operate.
Aim to ensure wife’s life ‘was not a waste’
Aim to ensure wife’s life ‘was not a waste’
A Dunedin widower making sure his wife’s life "was not a waste" has started a petition to Parliament to open Dunedin Hospital’s catheterisation laboratory around the clock.