Elena McPhee

"Fragile: do not throw overboard" — that’s the text on T-shirts designed for a group of retirement home residents heading out on what for most will be their first-ever cruise.

Fifty of the 53 University of Otago medical students found not to have met acceptable attendance requirements while on overseas placements will undertake remedial work, the university says.

The University of Otago has dropped a controversial proposal to cut three full-time academic jobs from the department of marine science.

A downgrade of the Lumsden Maternity Centre to a maternal and child hub was decided before any public consultation took place, the MP for Clutha-Southland Hamish Walker has alleged.

Possible delays getting this year’s final-year medical students from the University of Otago out working at district health boards around the country will not impact patient services or young...

Police have been called to a motorbike crash near a Dunedin Southern Motorway off-ramp.

Protesters with tents and sleeping bags have boarded a boat at Timaru and locked themselves to pipes as they take a stand against oil drilling off the New Zealand coast.

Ever wanted to learn to create a papier mache dragon, or paint a portrait from scratch? Dunedin people had a chance to do just that at an art society demonstration weekend.

From snowball fights with Selwyn College to food fights in the dining room, an alumna remembers the University College of the late 1960s as an "amazing" and eventful place.

Emergency services were alerted to a jet boat fire on Lake Roxburgh this evening.

Firefighters were called to free a duckling from a drain in the Dunedin suburb of Roslyn this morning.

Dunedin is playing host to a bioethics bonanza - a combined New Zealand Bioethics and Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law conference, covering topics from whistle-blowing to robots...

The University of Otago is remaining tight-lipped about what the process was when it came to checking the documentation of the 53 students found to have breached expectations regarding their...

The University of Otago is expected to increase its roll in 2020 for the third year in a row, this time by nearly 200 students.

Botanists in the field of fungi are celebrating their ability to further grow their research after receiving a Marsden Grant of nearly $1 million.