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    No ‘ODT’ tomorrow

    There will be no publication of the Otago Daily Times tomorrow, New Year’s Day.

    Cruise visitors 'really impressed’ with city

    Seabourn Quest passengers Steve and Joanne Kicinski take some time to experience Dunedin...

    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.

    Beating addiction spurred tireless mental health stalwart’s work across NZ

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    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.

    Recognition credited to all who gave time to projects

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    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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    Friendship as important as music at folk festival

    Whare Flat Folk Festival organisers past and present (from left) Sue Harkness and Siobhán Dillon...

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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.

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    Millionaire’s luxury superyacht parks in Dunedin port

    Luxury on water for families aboard the Teleost superyacht, which is in Dunedin. PHOTO: STEPHEN...

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    Millionaire’s luxury superyacht parks in Dunedin port

    Fancy a week-long cruise around New Zealand with your family on a chartered super-yacht?

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    Landfill’s impact on lagoon likely ‘toxic’

    The Kaikorai estuary could be a nature haven and city asset if water pollution ends. Photo:...

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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.

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    Pub’s new avian mascot comes home to roost

    Concord Inn co-owners Jane Downing and Warren Bremner stand in front of the pub’s new entranceway...

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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.

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    First sea lion pup of breeding season born

    Tui, the 6-year-old sea lion, with her pup — the first to be born in Dunedin this season (this...

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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

    University of Otago mooting team members Campbell Kidd and Abby Bowmar after winning the New...

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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

    Members of the University of Otago (Christchurch) Canterbury Health and Ageing Life Course ...

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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

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    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

    Scaffolder Max McKenzie hams up a variation of air guitar after assembling the stage in the...

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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’

    Dunedin man Sam Weepers has started a petition to change the Dunedin cath lab’s operating hours...

    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.

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    South looks best bet for NYE weather

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    South looks best bet for NYE weather

    Invercargill may be the place to be on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day if you want to stay dry.

    String of motorbike crashes on Dunedin roads

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    String of motorbike crashes on Dunedin roads

    Two teenage brothers driving around the neighbourhood on their dirt bikes found themselves getting blood taken by police after one crashed into a parked car.

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    Sandcastle strategy a ‘winner’ for family

    Aramoana cribbies (from left) William Davis, 10, James Glover, 13, Mark Glover, Liam Glover, 11,...

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    Sandcastle strategy a ‘winner’ for family

    For one large Dunedin extended family, a lazy holiday breakfast in an Aramoana crib was spent devising a strategy on how to create a show-stopping sand structure.

    ‘Unafraid’ cartoonist dies aged 84

    A Garrick Tremain self-portrait.

    ‘Unafraid’ cartoonist dies aged 84

    Former Otago Daily Times cartoonist Garrick Tremain has died, aged 84.

    Father and son fillet their catch

    REPORT: LAINE PRIESTLEY / PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

    Father and son fillet their catch

    The master, Lindsay Keith, supervises his apprentice and son, Alex, as they fillet fish following a successful morning’s fishing on Saturday.
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