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Photos of the year: Gerard O'Brien
It was a long drive to Tekapo in April to find this 1934 Sentinel steam truck on its way to Wānaka.
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Famous for stunning setting, massive eels
Famous for stunning setting, massive eels
Chances are when you hear the words jetty and Lake Rotoiti, an image will come to mind of a jetty jutting out into glacier-fed waters while being dwarfed by soaring snow-capped peaks.
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Hospital boiler room set for a new lease on life
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Hospital boiler room set for a new lease on life
After 30 years empty, there are big plans for the towering old Oamaru Hospital boiler house, Jules Chin reports.
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Pondering existential questions
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Pondering existential questions
Subeditor and avid reader Samantha Powell shares her book-worm highlights of the year.
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Keeping sounds alive
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Keeping sounds alive
Dunedin photographer Fraser Thompson is on a mission to document as much of the city’s music scene as he can.
Pizza fritta with sugo, salumi XO and mozzarella
Pizza fritta with sugo, salumi XO and mozzarella
MasterChef contestants often draw on their heritages when creating their masterpieces for the television show.
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Baby blues caught eye, captured heart
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Baby blues caught eye, captured heart
Many sports fans support teams that represent their region.
Perfect bay for a diversion, mint swim
Perfect bay for a diversion, mint swim
My first glimpse of Gore Bay was a pretty epic one.
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Summer Times
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Summer Times
Over the next three weeks, the Otago Daily Times runs its annual Summer Times section.
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‘Death Stranding 2’ the pick of the bunch in 2025
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‘Death Stranding 2’ the pick of the bunch in 2025
The follow-up to the downright nutty Death Stranding stood out, amid an industry in crisis, for video game reviewer Ben Allan in 2025.
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Waitangi Day, but not as we know it
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Waitangi Day, but not as we know it
Mike Houlahan looks back at how the ODT covered burning issues of yesteryear. Today: how the newspaper covered the very first Waitangi Day celebrations.
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Celebrity lectures excite Dunedin
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Celebrity lectures excite Dunedin
Today we look back at the NZ tour of famed free thinker Annie Besant as part of our series on how the ODT covered the burning issues of yesteryear.
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Riotous reception for the PS2
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Riotous reception for the PS2
Ben Allan recalls PlayStation 2’s out-of-this-world arrival in 2000.
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Harry Potter theories keep on giving to new and old alike
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Harry Potter theories keep on giving to new and old alike
Laine Priestley explains a handful of the magical Harry Potter theories circulating around the real-world wizarding community.
Pedal to the metal for electrician
Pedal to the metal for Dunedin electrician
Heavy metal bands Mastodon, Slayer and Whitechapel are not among the usual clientele for the average Dunedin tradie.
Biscuits of a bygone era
Biscuits of a bygone era
A superette assistant poses with Hudsons biscuits in 1961.
The best Games? (not for NZ)
The best Games? (not for NZ)
With the new century entering its 25th year, Summer Times looks back at some of the events of 2000 and sees how we’ve fared since. Kayla Hodge recounts the Games...
Flood put city residents to the test in 1923
Flood put city residents to the test in 1923
In a six-part series, Mike Houlahan looks back at how the Otago Daily Times covered burning issues of yesteryear. Today we look back at the 1923 Dunedin floods, a...
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The last shop
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The last shop
A grand, independent department store graced Invercargill's Tay Street for 123 years.
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Always a bargain ...
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Always a bargain ...
Alan Dick minds the shop in his Discount Foods store, in Cromwell, in November 1984.