Opinion

When change comes slowly, it can be easy to miss that it has come at all. But with another university year over, it is worth acknowledging how North Dunedin has changed for the better.

In the foreword to its report, the Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction challenges the Government to seize a ''once in a generation'' opportunity for reform.

New Zealand drivers must be starting to wonder if they are on a road to nowhere.

Talk about a depressing statistic. A University of Otago study shows nearly one in eight New Zealanders over the age of 15 is on antidepressants, despite little evidence they are helping curb this...

When vaping arrived on the scene several years ago it seemed like a promising alternative to smoking, a way for smokers to break their habit in a relatively harmless way.  After all, inhaling...

When the figures came out from the Tertiary Education Commission last week on the uptake of first-year fees-free tertiary education, it was found overall student numbers had actually fallen.

Strikes are not new to New Zealand but one would have to go back a long way — decades — to find a time when industrial action was as widespread as it is now.

There's nothing colder than a Dunedin house in winter - or so the rest of the country believes.

First, the good news. New Zealand is to host the Women's Rugby World Cup in 2021, the first time that growing tournament will be played in the southern hemisphere.