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Food & WineApril 8

New and traditional offerings

The Easter and Anzac long-weekend picnics and walks might require a few more layers and warmth, and possibly swapping those end-of-season barbecues for slow-cooked casseroles or roasts.
New and traditional offerings
New and traditional offerings
Food & WineApril 6

Easter eggs the traditional way

In this recipe from the ODT archives, Elisabeth Helm, from Switzerland, showed us a traditional way to decorate eggs for Easter back in 2012 as part of our Flavours of Home series.
Easter eggs the traditional way
Easter eggs the traditional way
DunedinNovember 14

Easter trading choice assertion questioned

The chief executive of the Otago Chamber of Commerce got a grilling yesterday after arguing 100% of members surveyed wanted the choice of opening on Easter Sunday.
Easter trading choice assertion questioned
Easter trading choice assertion questioned
QueenstownApril 20

'Totally worth it' as shops flout law

If inspectors from the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment were in Wanaka yesterday, almost every retailer in the resort will face fines for breaching Easter trading laws.
'Totally worth it' as shops flout law
'Totally worth it' as shops flout law
EditorialApril 18

Where have they put him?

Imagine how you would feel if soon after the burial of a close friend or family member you went to the cemetery, only to find that the grave had been opened and the body gone.
NewsApril 3

17 charged over Easter drink-driving

Seventeen Otago or Southland drivers will be appearing in court on drink-driving charges after the Easter weekend blitz by police.
17 charged over Easter drink-driving
17 charged over Easter drink-driving
DunedinMarch 31

Holiday bus organisers delighted with patronage

Otago Heritage Bus Society organisers are ''absolutely delighted'' with the response from Dunedin passengers to a service the society offered, using two restored buses, on the Good Friday public holiday.
Holiday bus organisers delighted with patronage
Holiday bus organisers delighted with patronage
DunedinMarch 30

Walks of the cross

Enjoying the fine weather, hundreds of people celebrated Easter Good Friday in Walks of the Cross and associated church services throughout Otago yesterday, including 100 walkers at Queenstown and 25 at Hampden.
EditorialMarch 29

The test of a life

Easter is the most important celebration on the Christian calendar and for Christians it is the defining event in the life of Jesus Christ.
DunedinMarch 28

Police enforcing lower Easter speed limit

Southern police will be closely monitoring traffic on Otago roads during Easter, when they expect large numbers of people to travel throughout the region.
Police enforcing lower Easter speed limit
Police enforcing lower Easter speed limit
DunedinMarch 27

Otago skies generally clear over Easter

The weather this weekend is expected, for the most part, to be as bright and shiny as an Easter egg, the MetService has forecast.
DunedinApril 12

Holy week begins

While most Dunedin residents indulged their chocolate cravings over Easter, members of about 50 families denied themselves the sugary treat in preparation for their alternative holy week.
Holy week begins
Holy week begins
OpinionApril 9

Companies, grow some fit morals

Easter's just passed, a time to think of higher things; such as whether capitalism can have a moral purpose.
DunedinApril 25

Three in Dunedin hospital after weekend crashes

Easter holidaymakers faced a relatively free-flowing trip back to Dunedin yesterday.
DunedinApril 25

Many attend services

Scores of overseas tourists joined many hundreds of Dunedin people at Easter Sunday church services in the city yesterday to celebrate the Christian resurrection story.
Many attend services
Many attend services
NationalApril 20

More checkpoints and more police over Easter

Police in Southland and Otago will have three things on their minds over the Easter break - speed, alcohol and poor driving.
QueenstownApril 17

Drink-driving reminders to be displayed this Easter

Posters reminding people not to drink and drive will be distributed to licensed premises in Queenstown around Easter, as part of a campaign throughout the Lakes District and Central Otago.
QueenstownApril 17

Holiday madness made for youth

"Easter Holiday Madness" for Wakatipu youth will break out over the next two weeks, starting today.
The MixApril 15

Online Easter offerings

For Filipino Catholics, the experience of celebrating Lent, the Holy Week and Easter might be a mere mouse-click away.
EditorialApril 7

God or Mammon?

Parliament, as it so often does, tried to design a horse with its legislative provisions controlling private enterprise during Easter, and instead produced a camel.
NationalApril 2

Easter trading laws branded as 'absurd'

Business owners are rubbishing the Easter trading laws as a farce while shopworkers put up their feet and enjoy time off.
NationalMarch 30

Police warn motorists to take care during Easter

Police are warning motorists to take care on the roads this Easter holiday, advising people to take extra care, watch their speed and travelling distances.
QueenstownMarch 26

Retailers consider Easter

Wanaka retailers are mulling the annual Easter question - should they open their doors over the coming long weekend and trade in defiance of New Zealand's shop-trading laws?
Retailers consider Easter
Retailers consider Easter
OpinionMarch 24

Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Good Friday and Easter Sunday in lands still Christian are days of religious observance and obligation.
Good Friday and Easter Sunday
Good Friday and Easter Sunday