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Dolphin catch increase could be ‘random’

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Dolphin catch increase could be ‘random’

A sixfold increase in dolphin captures since the introduction of onboard cameras could be due to a range of factors, including "random fluctuations", Seafood New Zealand says.

Firewood stacking funds sports trips

King’s High School students Siaki Ramsay (left), 16, and Nantei Teweti, 15, about to stack a pile...

Firewood stacking funds boys’ sports trips

Stacking wood is giving a group of King’s High School students an education in one of life’s biggest lessons.

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Early release for robber

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Early release for robber

A Mosgiel man who committed two armed robberies in a fortnight has been released on parole after serving just over half of his sentence.

Oil spill exercise

Oil spill exercise

ORC senior investigator Richard Lord monitors an oil skimmer during an oil spill exercise in the upper Otago Harbour, in Dunedin.

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Funding blow to humanities: uni

University of Otago students walk past the registry building. Photo: Gerard O'Brien

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Funding blow to humanities: uni

A changed approach to tertiary education funding in this year’s Budget has left the University of Otago scrambling to work out what it means.

Problems envisaged with prescriptions

Roslyn Pharmacy owner Andy Hou is sceptical about the proposed 12-month prescriptions for...

Problems envisaged with 12-month prescriptions

A surprise Budget announcement about prescriptions has left one pharmacist perplexed.

Significant healthcare issues unaddressed

We have a health system under pressure.

Govt has fewer options when back against wall

A govt has fewer options when its back's against the wall

Ever since I helped write Bill Birch’s Budget speech 30 years ago, I love Budget Day - the most exciting day of the year for an economics and politics nut like me.

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Plans for third medical school seemingly shelved

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Plans for third medical school seemingly shelved

The government appears to have consigned a proposed new medical school based at the University of Waikato in Hamilton to the waiting rooms.

What looks like thrift risks exacting great cost

This year’s Budget was pitched as prudent and responsible, not a lolly scramble.

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Mollymawk set free after three weeks’ care

A Buller’s mollymawk is taken aboard MV Sootychaser by Dunedin Wildlife Hospital wildlife...

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Mollymawk set free after three weeks’ care

After three weeks in hospital care, a Buller’s mollymawk was released 1km out to sea off Dunedin’s coast yesterday.

Budget 2025: Firms given get-fit regime

Firms given get-fit regime

In her "Growth Budget", Nicola Willis has sent the country’s businesses to the gym for a workout.

Phone rage: Dunedin man 'threatens to kill' bank worker

An enraged Dunedin man threatened to rob and kill a bank call centre worker and ‘‘smash’’ their workplace up, police said.

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Kaikorai Stream: A tale of two tips

The Burnside tip also runs alongside the Kaikorai Stream. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery

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Kaikorai Stream: A tale of two tips

Mary Williams investigates the polluted Kaikorai Stream's journey past two tips and finds a pond of contaminated water and angry residents.

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Soiled bedding swamps charity

Dunedin Bedding Bank founder Janine Walker holds a mouldy donated duvet wet with possible urine...

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Soiled bedding swamps charity

A Dunedin charity has been inundated with blankets infested with mould, urine, faeces and blood stains, causing much-needed funds to be redirected to waste removal.

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Closing down - for real this time

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Closing down - for real this time

The owner of a central Dunedin gift shop says the store is closing down — and this time he means it.

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Ill health forces abrupt closure of iconic cafe

The Dunedin Botanic Garden cafe has closed. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

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Ill health forces abrupt closure of gardens cafe

The abrupt closure of the Dunedin Botanic Garden cafe feels like the "end of an era" for its ill manager.

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'Not sustainable': Bowls clubs in downward spiral

Members of the more-than-a-century-old North East Valley Bowling Club have voted to put its North...

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'Not sustainable': Bowls clubs in downward spiral

Dunedin has too many bowling clubs to be sustainable, which could lead to a reduction of up to five clubs over the next few years, a bowls leader warns.

'Stunned' at lack of emergency homes in South

Hine Taylor says she's been told there are no emergency homes available. Photo: RNZ

'Stunned' at lack of emergency homes in South

Queenstown's Hine Taylor has been living couch-to-couch for more than five months while she sits tight on a lengthy social housing waiting list.

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Inland port competition fears

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Inland port competition fears

Port Otago competing with Calder Stewart to establish an inland port could have a "serious impact" on the Otago Regional Council’s financial position, a regional councillor says.

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