Dunedin

At K9 Medical Detection New Zealand headquarters at Invermay are (from left) Get Yourself Checked...

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Aust charity backs Dunedin cancer research

Word of a Dunedin trust’s ground-breaking work, using specially trained dogs to sniff out cancer, is spreading around the globe and an Australian charity has just raised $NZ200,000 for the trust to...

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Health charity under scrutiny: Probe into Te Kaika widened by govt

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Health charity under scrutiny: Probe into Te Kaika widened by govt

A government probe into under-fire charity Te Kāika is more wide-ranging than previously known, the Otago Daily Times can now reveal.

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Never a long face to be seen at the Middlemarch pub

Meeting in Middlemarch’s Strath Taieri Hotel for a drink ahead of the annual Goldfields Cavalcade...

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Never a long face to be seen at the Middlemarch pub

The new owners of a rural Otago pub are not horsing around when it comes to the importance of having a thriving local watering hole.

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Mixed bag but ‘plenty of fruit yet to be picked’

Hannah Pearson, 12, of Dunedin, is a big blueberry fan and likes to pick her own at Blue Willow...

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Mixed bag but ‘plenty of fruit yet to be picked’

It has been a mixed bag for fruit growers in the South this summer, many blaming the poor weather for disappointing yields.

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Dunedin prepares for storm’s impact

A week of wild weather comes amid warnings that marine heatwave conditions currently enveloping...

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Dunedin prepares for storm’s impact

The tail of the storm that ravaged much of the lower North Island yesterday is expected to hit Dunedin today and city leaders are not taking any chances with possible flooding.

Police, university brace for 'feral' behaviour

Castle Street in Dunedin on a Sunday morning during O-Week. Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton

Police, university brace for 'feral' behaviour

Police and the University of Otago will be monitoring student behaviour, with concerns about another year of out-of-control and dangerous behaviour during Orientation Week (O-Week).

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Grants subcommittee reinstated

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Grants subcommittee reinstated

An axed decision-making group will return to handing out Dunedin’s grants after councillors narrowly agreed to resurrect it.

Vehicle search uncovers drugs, weapons - police

Vehicle search uncovers drugs, weapons - police

A machete was found along with cannabis, a set of scales and an imitation firearm inside a vehicle searched in Dunedin this morning, police say.

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Orchardist donates fruit as ‘way of helping the community’

Helper Prue Frost (left), Bradford School principal Emma Knopp (centre) and Strode Road Orchard...

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Orchardist donates fruit as ‘way of helping the community’

The fruit is coming and so are the cheers.

Watching young grow secret to youth

Moyra Brown celebrates her 100th birthday at the Catholic Social Services Building in Dunedin...

Watching young grow secret to youth

Moyra Brown has watched a lot of people grow up over her 100 years — and it has kept her young at heart.

Council readies sandbags as storm's tail bears down

The Dunedin City Council is making sandbags available after news that the tail of a storm ravaging much of the lower North Island today is expected to hit the city tomorrow.

Opportunity to be ‘independent, free’

Sailability volunteer Peter Dowden takes George Murray, 10, of Oamaru, for a sail at Broad Bay on...

Opportunity to be ‘independent, free’

For George Murray, no feeling compares to when he is out sailing on Otago Harbour.

Bringing blessings

Fan dancers (from left) Saffy Madison-Weatherall, 16, Hannah Hamilton, 16, Hikari Heath, 15,...

Bringing blessings

Dragon dancers followed a dragon ball in George St yesterday morning to bring blessings of good fortune for the year, before Chinese New Year celebrations.

Enjoyable, unique recital by pair

A reasonable-sized Sunday afternoon audience turned out yesterday for a recital in the Dunedin Town Hall entitled "Pipes and Reeds”.

Eyes front

Eyes front

A little owl watches for prey from the heart-shaped entrance to a hollowed silver birch tree on a farm near Waikouaiti.

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Takeover could lead to instability: Powell

Mercy Hospital. Photo: Gregor Richardson

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Takeover could lead to instability: Powell

A private equity takeover of Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital could lead to a period of instability at the top, a health commentator warns.

‘A place for people to sit and reflect’

Suicide prevention advocate Nikki Cockburn plants a suicide remembrance tree. Photo: Gregor...

‘A place for people to sit and reflect’

A special tree for those who have lost loved ones by suicide has been planted in Mosgiel after the original broke in catastrophic winds last year.

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City ‘sold out’ as university year gets going

Nisha Patel (left) with daughter Hrithika Patel, 18, friend Riyanah Hathi, 17, and her mother...

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City ‘sold out’ as university year gets going

Motel rooms, toasters and restaurant seats were all in short supply in Dunedin over the weekend as the city was completely chocker.

Colour, culture and vibrancy festival aims

South Dunedin Street Art Trail organiser Hayden Raw displays a fundraising T-shirt outside the...

Colour, culture and vibrancy festival aims

South Dunedin will be buzzing with art for the next two months as the area’s first mural festival, called Ebb and Flow, officially gets under way.

Obituary: dedicated to building the South

Stew MacLeod relaxes on scaffolding surrounding the spire of Dunedin’s First Church during...

Obituary: dedicated to building the South

With an innate ability for machinery and engineering in the blood, Stew MacLeod had a hand in thousands of projects across Otago and New Zealand.

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