Shanghai, Dunedin's sister city, now has a special relationship with the city's fledgling Chinese Garden.
Strike action by medical radiation technologists is escalating because pay talks have broken down and District Health Boards New Zealand will not come back to the bargaining table, says union delegate Bernadette Gourley.
Plans to deepen Port Otago's shipping channel, dumping the dredged material offshore, risks creating a "dead zone" which would threaten the income of local fishers, the Port Chalmers fishing co-operative says.
Domestic purposes benefit recipient Catherine Miller understands the Government's push for mothers on the DPB to get back to work and not have them "sitting around".
The Otago District Health Board will review national and Australasian Caesarean section rates in light of the board's climbing rate of Caesarean births.
The Government was "kicking people when they're down", Dunedin Methodist Mission chief executive Laura Black said last night.
An 8-year-old boy was snatched as he waited for his mother outside a public toilet in St Kilda, Dunedin, yesterday afternoon, Detective Sergeant Malcolm Inglis said.
Dunedin domestic power users enjoy some of the cheapest power in New Zealand, a government price survey concludes.
Numbers were down at yesterday's Go Otago event, but an organiser called it a success.
Police are reasonably satisfied with the behaviour of University of Otago students at the Hyde St keg party on Saturday, making three arrests at the annual student event.
An alleged vehicle thief was stopped in his tracks when the four-wheel-drive he was in ran out of petrol, Senior Sergeant Steve Aitken, of Dunedin, said.
Thirty-four elderly people in Otago and Southland have appealed health board housework cuts, according to Otago and Southland district health boards regional planning and funding manager David Chrisp.
"Politically correct" attitudes to sunburn mean people now need to be medicated with vitamin D, a Southland and Otago district health board committee was told this week.
"Vulnerable" young Southlanders risk missing out on health care because the Southland District Health Board will not fund Invercargill's youth health clinic, Southland Youth One Stop Shop manager Jocelyn Johnstone says.
The Southland and Otago district health boards say they are satisfied with Telecom's assurance its beleaguered XT network will be fixed.
The Otago and Southland district health boards will monitor rest-homes which may be struggling with lower occupancy rates, planning and funding regional general manager David Chrisp told the disability support advisory committee yesterday.
Telford Rural Polytechnic is considering merging with Canterbury's Lincoln University, as the tertiary shake-up and funding cuts squeeze the Balclutha institution.
Otago Regional councillors yesterday voted to consult the public over a possible merger between Port Otago and Lyttelton Port, despite deeming such a move to be insignificant.
John McGlashan College pupils (from left) James Phizacklea (10) William Archer (11) and Ryan Neill (10) work together to take a water sample at the Kaikorai estuary in Dunedin this week.
An Otago Peninsula yellow-eyed penguin attacked by a shark at the end of January is welcomed home to Dunedin by Department of Conservation biodiversity ranger Mel Young yesterday, while Willis Ratahi, of Air New Zealand, looks on.