Photographers go a bit wild
Photographers go a bit wild
Judges for the 2025 Tūhura Otago Museum Photography Competition display some of the entries in the wildlife category of the annual photography competition.
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Smooth Hill landfill going ahead: council
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Smooth Hill landfill going ahead: council
It is time to get on with the job and construct the Smooth Hill landfill, Dunedin’s mayor says.
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Hospital housing for out-of-town families under threat
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Hospital housing for out-of-town families under threat
A volunteer-run service providing affordable accommodation to out-of-town families of patients in Dunedin Hospital has been given just four months to find a new building or close for good.
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Pregnancy opioid use surprises midwife
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Pregnancy opioid use surprises midwife
A Dunedin midwife is shocked by research showing New Zealand has the third-highest prevalence in the world of prescribed opioid use during pregnancy.
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Historic pub ready for loving ‘revival’
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Historic pub ready for loving ‘revival’
The new owners of a historic Dunedin restaurant and pub say they are taking over a beautiful building that just needs some love.
Chalking it up
Chalking it up
Contractors, suspended in a crane’s man-cage, remove numbered bricks from the Dunedin Gasworks Museum’s chimney yesterday.
Attack on politicians placed in large print
Attack on politicians placed in large print
A retired Dunedin doctor has put his money where his mouth is, declaring a plague on both Labour and National parties for their failure to deliver the new Dunedin hospital as promised.
Changes in personnel leading new hospital build continue
Changes in personnel leading new hospital build continue
The merry-go-round of faces leading the new Dunedin hospital build continues with the departure of a long-serving local health official and arrival of one of New Zealand’s top health bosses.
Hundreds donate blood at university
Hundreds donate blood at university
About 250 people donated blood at the University of Otago’s Union Hall yesterday.
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Otago Museum to charge international visitors
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Otago Museum to charge international visitors
While a proposal to charge international visitors $20 to enter some of Dunedin’s cultural institutions has been thrown out, Tūhura Otago Museum is pushing ahead with the fee.
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Car crashing into fence gives resident ‘big fright’
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Car crashing into fence gives resident ‘big fright’
An elderly Dunedin woman got a "big fright" when she was woken by a loud bang after a driver careened into her concrete fence.
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Illustrating ‘generations of issues’
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Illustrating ‘generations of issues’
A local Māori leader hopes an exhibition detailing Ngāi Tahu’s landmark High Court case will shine a light on waterway degradation across the iwi’s tribal lands.
Well-represented German dept alumni to hold reunion
Well-represented German dept alumni to hold reunion
Nearly 100 former students of the University of Otago German language department will be saying "auf wiedersehen" to the department for one final time on Saturday.
Sweep for chess team’s youngest
Sweep for chess team’s youngest
A young Dunedin chess prodigy has cleaned up at the Otago secondary schools competition.
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Funds approved for carbon-friendly transport
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Funds approved for carbon-friendly transport
More than $60 million worth of carbon-friendly transport projects were put on DCC books as councillors sparred over combating climate change.
Beloved Berwick outdoor course closes
Popular outdoor course shuts, lacks volunteers
A popular and important outdoor skills course on the Taieri has been shut down after 35 years, due to a lack of volunteer support and the economic downturn.
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Man flashed staff after being trespassed
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Man flashed staff after being trespassed
Shoppers at a Dunedin supermarket were exposed to a bizarre, X-rated performance by a repeat thief.
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‘Bandanna burglar’ returned to scene
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‘Bandanna burglar’ returned to scene
A Dunedin man known as "the bandanna burglar", after a series of student-flat break-ins, has returned to the scene of the crime, a court has heard.
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Months cut off sex offender sentence
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Months cut off sex offender sentence
A Dunedin man who sexually abused a girl on dozens of occasions has had four months shaved off his prison sentence.
Doc investigating possible bat sighting in Dunedin
Doc investigating possible bat sighting in Dunedin
Biosecurity New Zealand and the Department of Conservation (Doc) are investigating a possible sighting of a native Australian bat in a Dunedin park.