World in pictures: recent photographs
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Great Walk status a drawcard
Great Walk status a drawcard
One thousand additional walkers have trekked the Hump Ridge Track since it entered the international stage of the world’s great walks nearly a year ago.
Doing the twist
Doing the twist
Lucia Luxton, 17, of Dunedin, performs a back 1½ twist and a 1½ twist while competing in the junior elite A girls category at the South Island Diving Championships at Moana Pool on Saturday.
Prominent buildings nearing completion
Prominent buildings nearing completion
A group of prominent buildings in Dunedin’s city centre are nearing completion.
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Colourful spectacle of science fiction and fantasy
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Colourful spectacle of science fiction and fantasy
Fashion, fun and frivolity were on full display at the Steampunk Street Parade in Oamaru on Saturday.
Keep on trucking
Keep on trucking
Gore’s Main St was packed on Saturday as 68 of the finest trucks in the region paraded around town as part of the McDonough Contracting Gore Truck Show.
Parasite insights
Parasite insights
About a dozen people attended a Beef + Lamb New Zealand Wormwise Workshop in Wedderburn last week.
Tenants scarred by flat of horrors
Tenants scarred by flat of horrors
A student who took on a notorious Dunedin landlord is sharing her "traumatising" ordeal over fears others could end up trapped in the same situation.
New neighbours
New neighbours
The Dunedin Wildlife Hospital invited the Otago Daily Times along for the release of a Buller’s mollymawk off Dunedin’s coast this week aboard Port to Port Cruises and Wildlife Tours’ MV...
Road Test: Claw marks way of the future
Road Test: Claw marks way of the future
Commitment to modest-capacity, lion-hearted engines has been a Peugeot thing for a few years, but now it steps up.
Best foot forward
Best foot forward
Hundreds of keen young footballers showed off their skills at the annual Green Island junior seven-a-side football tournament at the Sunnyvale Sports Centre yesterday morning.
World in pictures
World in pictures
Recent photographs from Reuters
International Dance Day
International Dance Day
International Dance Day was celebrated across two days in Dunedin at the weekend, including Saturday afternoon at the Octagon.
Weekend workshop fosters musical talent
Weekend workshop fosters musical talent
More than 100 students from throughout New Zealand came together at the weekend to learn the ins and outs of the music industry.
World in pictures: Pope Francis' funeral
World in pictures: Pope Francis' funeral
Photos by Reuters and Getty Images
We will remember
We will remember
Thousands of people in Dunedin attended remembrance services yesterday, at dawn at the Cenotaph in Queens Gardens, and at 9.30am at the soldiers section at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Vatican crowd in shock - Dunedin photographer
Vatican crowd in shock - Dunedin photographer
A Dunedin-born photographer has described an "eerie" atmosphere in the Vatican City, just hours after the death of Pope Francis.
World record caps off ‘best ever’ Wheels
World record caps off ‘best ever’ Wheels
It was the last and it was the best.
Cross purposes
Cross purposes
Christian communities across Otago took part in a mass walk behind a wooden cross on Good Friday.
Speed, petrol, tarmac ‘it’s in my blood’
Speed, petrol, tarmac ‘it’s in my blood’
Saturday's petrol-head lineup was all about smiles and style as everything from a Ford Cortina to a Ferrari could be spotted at the 2025 George Begg Festival at Teretonga Park at Invercargill.