Elena McPhee

After two weeks of sadness, a recent volunteer week held for University of Otago students was a welcome chance to do something positive for the wider community, organisers say.

Plenty of families, groups of friends and colourful canines flocked to Woodhaugh Gardens in North Dunedin yesterday, for a Dunedin Pride picnic and a "dress up your dog" day.

Police were called after a car crashed into a rock wall on the Lawrence-Waitahuna Highway today.

A 65-year-old man is due to appear in court on Tuesday after he was arrested for a burglary in the Cargill St area, near the Octagon, this weekend.

Four people have minor injuries after their car rolled in South Otago this morning.

Sexist culture or isolated incidents at Knox College? Elena McPhee talks to former students and college master Dr Graham Redding. 

It is worlds away from her old life in India, but when New Delhi-based HR professional Suman Singh decided she wanted a change of career, she knew New Zealand was the place she wanted to go.

A faulty heating system was behind the closure of clinics at Dunedin's dental school 10 times this year.

A vehicle was left in the middle of an intersection on Dunedin's one-way street system tonight.

Emergency services were called to a crash at Saddle Hill, near Dunedin, tonight.

The University of Otago's Campus Watch were called after a group of ''drunk and rowdy'' men, including one who could hardly stand, disrupted a first-year law lecture last month, the university has...

Testers from the NZ Drug Foundation and KnowYourStuff will be returning to the University of Otago ahead of the Hyde St Party, the Otago University Students' Association says.

A cancer genetics and biology specialist at the University of Otago has received a $150,000 grant to investigate a device to detect early stage cancer - a development which could be a world first.

A long-planned Muslim chaplaincy service for the University of Otago will be officially launched today.

Colourful themes ranging from pirates to Avril Lavigne and "Crouching Tiger Hyding Dragons" will appear at the Hyde St party in the university quarter.

Looking after the Otago Helicopter Rescue Trust for the past 22 years has not always been easy for Ross Black - but he could not be prouder of what the trust has achieved.

A mountain biker was airlifted from Arrowtown to Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries this afternoon.