Dunedin

A Dunedin man arrested last year after police seized a huge haul of pounamu has finally been charged in relation to the taonga.

In the wake of the closure of the Crofters Yarn community knitting group’s Wakari base, someone has sent a "downright nasty" and "cowardly" card in the post, saying: "Karma. Goodbye Crofters Yarn".

As groceries become increasingly expensive in New Zealand, Otago Polytechnic is helping Dunedin Kāinga Ora tenants to put food on the table by showing them how to grow it.

A "game changing" blood test aimed at identifying people with colorectal cancer quicker and reducing New Zealand’s colonoscopy waiting lists is about to be rolled out across Otago and Southland.

Zones are back on the table for Otago bus users on the same day as Labour made a pitch to ride the buses for $10 a week.