Concern about how easy it is for postgraduate students to isolate themselves "to an extreme level", has prompted the OUSA to create a new support programme to combat loneliness.
Threats of vigilante justice have prompted Dunedin police to call for calm, following claims a man was filming children and "flashed" a gun while trying to abduct a child from a Mosgiel park recently.
Police are investigating whether a critically injured 20-year-old man was lying in the middle of Princes St or had tripped before being run over by a vehicle on Saturday night.
Funding for Tūhura Otago Museum, rising costs and a push to have Otago Peninsula road works completed are among the hottest issues raised by Dunedin residents, as the city council considers the next year’s spending programme.
A Ford Ranger owner was not loving the attention he got from police, after driving over the gardens and the kerb at McDonald’s Andersons Bay at the weekend.
A southern trucking company says it is exciting watching New Zealand’s first hydrogen refuelling stations opening — even if they are in the North Island.