Elena McPhee

From elaborately embroidered French and Belgian postcards to stamps marking the battle of Gallipoli, hundreds of thousands of stamps and postcards were on show ahead of Armistice Day in Dunedin’s...

The University of Otago has won an Australasian sustainability award for a green initiative aimed at shrinking its carbon footprint by a third.

Trouble on a Borneo mountain thought by locals to be paradise is one of the subjects of an award-winning film co-produced by University of Otago academics.

A University of Otago geophysicist is making his 30th trip  to the Antarctic,  this time to do a seismic survey of the area around the Ross Ice Shelf.

Boosting Maori academic staff numbers at the University of Otago will be looked at with urgency in the coming months, one of the leaders of a network set up to support them says.

Centenarians are less lonely than other elderly people, a University of Otago study has found.

Identifying students who are struggling and making contact with them early on is the aim of the University of Otago's new Office of Student Success.

The Southern District Health Board has apologised after postponing three incontinence surgeries this week, as its surgeons' credentials are reviewed to ensure they meet new standards.

"Melliferous", meaning yielding or producing honey, proved to be a Kavanagh College pupil's downfall at a national spelling bee - but he still got a taste of sweet success, coming second equal...

Two University of Otago academics have been recognised for their achievements in the fields of mathematics and genetics, becoming centenary fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Papatowai man Keith Olsen recently spent four weeks helping young people in a refugee camp in Greece. He spoke to Elena McPhee about the experience.

Otago Polytechnic students will be brewing up lager and pale ale at their new facility in Cromwell - which has just been officially named the Rough Rock Brewing Company.

A raft of proposed changes to New Zealand's laws on the division of relationship property are welcome, a University of Otago family law specialist says - but extra safeguards are needed when it...

Police are warning Dunedin tradesmen to keep tools out of sight after two more vehicles were broken into this week.

Two Dunedin men who attempted to stop a potential assailant by using a bat and coffee table have been told to act their age by a judge.

The University of Otago has dubbed its revamped Student Health mental health services a success after a controversial restructuring last year.

A Balclutha man who pushed his wife and threatened her with a knife has been discharged without conviction, after the judge heard he was at risk of deportation.