Tapanui dairy farmers Tim and Lorraine Johnson were last night named the 2011 Otago sharemilker-equity farmers of the year at a function in Balclutha.
Jack Malcolm can not understand what all the fuss is about.
Whitestone Cheese has had its biggest haul of awards and medals at the national cheese awards since the company was established in Oamaru in 1987.
A controversial film about the secret world of cadavers and body donation at the Otago Medical School has won a major film award.
Queenstown this week received global recognition as Best Incentive Destination at the micenet Australia conference and incentive industry awards in Melbourne.
Nomads Queenstown Backpackers has been named the best hostel in New Zealand by public voters in the annual "Hoscar" awards.
A prolific University of Otago researcher who is forging an international reputation for her work has won the Otago School of Medical Sciences' top award for 2010.
As countries throughout the world grapple with urgent shared challenges, including climate change, former Dunedin academic Prof Mark Olssen is urging a rethink of outdated concepts of global community.
A Dunedin teenager has won a Royal Society of New Zealand award for his study of the salt-tolerant grass which grows at a salt lake near Middlemarch.
Fortune Theatre productions Wuthering Heights, The Pitman Painters and The 39 Steps have won the lion's share of nominations for the inaugural Dunedin Theatre Awards.
The idea of James Bond dancing it out with the bad guy to win the girl may seem absurd.
Dunedin artist Sam Foley has picked up the People's Choice Award at the Wallace Art Awards for the second time.
wo new scholarships have been presented to horticulture students at Otago Polytechnic's Central Otago campus.
Sport Otago's Skills 2 Swim programme won the Water Safety New Zealand Education Award in Wellington this week.
"It's not easy, but we just find a way to deal with life without him."
New Zealand underwater hockey representative Bailey Lovett is still trying to catch her breath after winning the $50,000 Prime Minister's Future Scientist Prize, to support her planned study at the University of Otago.
The Emerson Brewing Company was last night named as the Westpac Supreme Business Excellence Award winner at a black-tie function in Dunedin attended by about 330 people.
The redeveloped Oamaru Opera House has been praised in the 2010 Southern Architecture Awards.
Dome Hills Station High Country Lodge, in North Otago, has won the best nationwide hotel category in the Corporate Events Guide People's Choice Awards.
Queenstown medical recruitment company MedRecruit won all three of its nominated categories at the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce 2010 Business Excellence Awards on Saturday night.