The University of Otago’s residential colleges are bursting at their seams next year, as the institution tries to find the best way to accommodate everyone.

Courtney Ennis’s research is about to go where no human’s research has gone before.

Dunedin's under-pressure emergency department is still waiting to fill positions, but a war of numbers is being fought by both the nurses’ organisation and the governing health body.

A "cumbersome" relic of Otago Regional Council’s previous term has been replaced by a governance structure critics say lacks detail and leaves mana whenua out of the conversation.

Drivers with a heavy right foot may soon start receiving speeding tickets from a new type of speed camera being installed around the southern regions.