Hamish MacLean

It is too early to say whether the proposed $25million University of Otago physical education refurbishment and extension will ever come to fruition, the university’s chief operating officer says.

Dunedin School of Art second-year student Chynna Highsted (19) enjoys the opening reception for "Mansions of the Mind" yesterday.

The woman who died in a car crash after a tree fell across State Highway 1 north of Dunedin this week was known to all in the small community she lived in.

Everybody needs to get a little uncomfortable to secure a liveable planet, a convicted climate change activist says.

A quietly anti-war composition by the University of Otago’s head of performing arts, Anthony Ritchie, has been voted by New Zealand classical music listeners as their favourite this year.

Four houses and a performing arts centre, by four designers, have been singled out at this year’s Otago-Southland ADNZ Architectural Design Awards.

The Dunedin City Council’s energy-use and climate policies are not working, and there is a real need for the council to review how it can reverse present trends, a new study says.

There is not enough room in the University of Otago’s 14 residential colleges for the number of students who want to stay there next year.

An aeroplane with high-resolution cameras is conducting flyovers in the high country as government agencies estimate Himalayan tahr numbers and mob sizes in South Island Crown pastoral leases.

Two attendees at the Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival had so much fun they refused to leave.

A teenage driver smashed into a parked car in Dunedin shortly after midnight on Saturday and when the police arrived, he was still drinking in the driver’s seat, police allege.

A Dunedin  police officer has been recognised for bravery for saving a life before he joined the police force.