In a bid to build a more consistently trained construction workforce in the South, Otago Polytechnic and the Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) have agreed to collaborate on their trades...

For more than a decade, the last thing Blueskin Bay children have been having in the playground next to the Waitati library is a ball.

About 9000 people died in six weeks when the 1918 influenza pandemic swept through New Zealand, making it the largest natural disaster in the country’s history.

A temporary 30kmh speed limit has been posted near the bottom of Three Mile Hill Rd between North Taieri and Halfway Bush in Dunedin.