Boy serious after quad bike accident
Boy serious after quad bike accident
A 7-year-old boy is in a serious condition after a quad bike accident in the Mosgiel area this afternoon.
Elena McPhee
Serious firework injury among 15 heli callouts
Serious firework injury among 15 heli callouts
From firework injuries and a sea rescue to health events and lost trampers, a record 15 jobs in 24 hours were logged in the region by Otago Regional Rescue Helicopters over the new year period.
So thankful for lessons from charity work
So thankful for lessons from charity work
A Catlins woman says she is ''so thankful'' for lessons learned helping out at an orphanage in Guatemala, in the wake of the Fuego volcano disaster in June last year.
Archie a wee New Year bundle
Archie a wee New Year bundle
New Year's Eve brought a welcome surprise for a young Balclutha woman who is the first mother to deliver a baby at the Queen Mary Maternity Centre in Dunedin Hospital this year.
Scholarship for Maori mental health studies
Scholarship for Maori mental health studies
An eminent psychiatrist has lent his name to a scholarship which will hopefully help tackle "institutional racism" in the mental health system, a University of Otago Maori leader says.
DNA from prehistoric sites telling
DNA from prehistoric sites telling
Some people might baulk at a career examining the secrets of the dead, but prehistoric burial grounds can tell us a massive amount about the society in which the people lived, University of Otago...
Christmas spending in Otago way up
Christmas spending in Otago way up
Otago has outstripped most of the rest of New Zealand for pre-Christmas spending, recording a 7.1% increase on last year.
Disruptions in summer school
Disruptions in summer school
A distance learning student is unhappy with several hitches to his course, claiming ''institutional knowledge'' appears to be being lost at the university due to the support services review.
Warning to China over cyber activity
Warning to China over cyber activity
A diplomatic ''adjustment'' in the relationship between New Zealand and China could occur after Chinese hackers targeted intellectual property and commercial data, a University of Otago political...
She's still the one
She's still the one
Shania Twain, the Queen of Country Pop, took to the stage in Dunedin to perform what may be her final live performance.
Baby girl for Scout Barbour-Evans
Baby girl for Scout Barbour-Evans
A Dunedin transgender person who contested the city's mayoralty in 2016 has given birth to a baby daughter.
Trees can go, High Court rules
Trees can go, High Court rules
Two towering trees considered a hazard at the Christie St Reserve in Balclutha will be given the chop, after the district council's decision to fell them was upheld by the High Court.
Music professor will miss the milieu
Music professor will miss the milieu but maintain the theme
Rocker Rob Burns is travelling on, after nearly 18 years' teaching at the University of Otago.
Hopes Holly will be NZ's first frog dog
Hopes Holly will be NZ's first frog dog
It's a hard road to finding the perfect frog dog - but a University of Otago frog specialist thinks he might have hit the jackpot.
Boosting female professor numbers a slow process
Boosting female professor numbers a slow process
Men still outnumber women by more than three to one when it comes to reaching the rank of professor at the University of Otago, newly-released statistics show.
Uni staff want their bus stop back
University staff ask for their bus stop back
Having to drive to work or hike from a central bus stop to the University of Otago campus every day is the thin edge of the wedge for a group of university staff, who want the museum stop reinstated.
Shifting peaks of power use could reduce costs
Shifting peaks of power use could reduce costs
NZ's total electricity demand could be reduced up to 20% during winter, if the use of heat pumps, electric hot-water cylinders and fridges was spread more evenly through the day, a University of Otago study shows.
Health sciences flush with professors
Health sciences flush with professors
Newly-released figures from the University of Otago show its health sciences division is leading the way in terms of senior-level academics, with six times as many professors as the division of...
Losing job ‘demoralising’
Losing job ‘demoralising’
The University of Otago went ahead like a "steamroller" causing stress and confusion during its jobs review, according to a support services staff member who lost the job she held for more than a...
Capturing energy of place and time
Capturing energy of place and time
A group of top New Zealand performers is channelling the Beatles in a three-day recording session at the University of Otago’s Albany St studio.