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Simms calls for another choice

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Simms calls for another choice

Three options to help South Dunedin adapt to climate challenges are being weighed up, as well as the status quo, and at least one councillor wants something else to be in the mix.

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Legality of South Dunedin options questioned

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Legality of South Dunedin options questioned

A contentious council debate about South Dunedin’s future appears set to go ahead, despite pleas for postponement and accusations of staff ‘‘railroading’’ through deficient options.

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Chance to get ‘difficult to find’ cards draws collectors

Justin Knight and sons Toby, 12, and Ryan, 13, of Balclutha, assess their Pokemon collection at...

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Chance to get ‘difficult to find’ cards draws collectors

Whether it was sports cards, Pokemon or something else, hundreds of people were out to improve their collections.

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Relic’s visit to Dunedin ‘historic’

Catholic Diocese of Assisi director of international affairs and custodian of the relics...

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Relic’s visit to Dunedin ‘historic’

A relic of the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint has journeyed around the world and now to Dunedin — its furthest destination yet.

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Brave souls take on icy dip

Steve Wylie (left) and Michael Dow, both of Mosgiel, lap up the frigid waters at St Clair Beach...

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Brave souls take on icy dip

Apparently, real Scotsmen never wear underwear under their kilts.

Buildings in orange hue to promote fundraiser

Otago Boys’ High School was lit up with orange floodlights on Saturday in support of the World...

Buildings in orange hue to promote fundraiser

No, Dunedin was not going full out in support of the Netherlands at the Fifa World Cup by lighting up landmarks with orange floodlights at the weekend.

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University geology museum in ‘very select group’

University of Otago Emeritus Prof Daphne Lee, Dr Jeffrey Robinson (centre) and the late Emeritus...

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University geology museum in ‘very select group’

The University of Otago’s geology museum has been made one of 32 International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) ‘‘geo-collections of global importance’’.

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Fellowship will foster research in diseases

University of Otago infectious diseases researcher Professor Jemma Geoghegan. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Fellowship will foster research in diseases

A strong focus on emerging infectious diseases has landed a University of Otago evolutionary biologist and virologist a fellowship to do research at one of Scotland’s oldest universities.

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Questions linger over potential plans for South Dunedin

Carolyn Sime (holding Boogie). PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Questions linger over potential plans for South Dunedin

An unconfirmed plan that could require the loss of one in four South Dunedin homes has been met with a noisy political backlash that may not reflect public sentiment.

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Ong to rally council to stop govt removing fees-free policy

Cr Benedict Ong. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Ong to rally council to stop govt removing fees-free policy

The government could be urged to reconsider scrapping a scheme that reimburses students for final-year fees if Dunedin city councillor Benedict Ong gets his way.

Bookworms brace for word wars

Bookworms brace for word wars

St Leonards pupils read their favourite books ahead of the Otago Literacy Association’s inaugural Ōtepoti Literacy Challenge.

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Findings offer more depth to ‘Pavlov’s Dogs’ experiment

University of Otago anatomy researcher Prof John Reynolds has replicated the ‘‘Pavlov’s Dogs’’...

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Findings offer more depth to ‘Pavlov’s Dogs’ experiment

Findings from a replication of the ‘‘Pavlov’s Dogs’’ experiment at the University of Otago, may have benefits for people with Parkinson’s disease.

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Pupils dig new wetland behind East Taieri School

East Taieri School pupils and Kaitiaki Rōpū group members Beau Cowley, 9 and Eva Campbell, 10,...

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Pupils dig new wetland behind East Taieri School

Ground has finally been broken in the development of an urban wetland around the back of a Dunedin primary school.

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Goal to show best of Irish culture

Trinity Catholic College student Che McGivern is welcoming Dunedin residents with Irish ancestry...

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Goal to show best of Irish culture

Like most Irishmen, Che McGivern says he has ‘‘a very particular set of skills’’.

Athletes gearing up for Commonwealth Games

Anna Grimaldi is set to make her Commonwealth Games debut at Glasgow 2026. Photos: Allied Media...

Athletes gearing up for Commonwealth Games

Two exceptional athletes with Dunedin roots are ready to take on the world.

Students get hands-on forestry lesson

Taieri College students at the skid site in Berwick Forest. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

Students get hands-on forestry lesson

The classroom became trees and machines for a group of Taieri College students, taking the opportunity to see how to cut and thin trees.

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Reminder of speed and impact of burns

Brayden Warnock-Hannon, of Dunedin, suffered severe burns that changed his life. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Reminder of speed and impact of burns

Brayden Warnock-Hannon had just finished making himself some 2-minute noodles on the range, and when he reached over to turn off the element, his jersey touched it and instantly went up in flames.

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Shock at tenfold rate increase

Audrey Moore was caught by surprise when the value of a section on which the driveway to her home...

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Shock at tenfold rate increase

A Green Island couple are reeling from a shock 910% rates hike.

Lightbulb moment as homeowner puts on midwinter show

Lightbulb moment as homeowner puts on midwinter show

Mosgiel resident Richard Milmine stands outside his home in Elizabeth Ave, lit up with a midwinter light show.

Obituary: Eric Officer, piano tuner

Eric Officer, with the Glenroy Auditorium Steinway piano he tuned more than 400 times. PHOTO:...

Obituary: Eric Officer, piano tuner

You would be hard-pressed to find a musician in Dunedin whose instrument did not at one point receive the care and attention of piano tuner Eric Officer.

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