After thinking it over for a while, Nathan Shanks decided this was the year he would finally have a crack at running a full marathon. Unfortunately, Covid-19 had other ideas.
The University of Otago has apologised after some students were told those who headed home at the start of lockdown had gambled with their academic futures.
New Zealand’s swift Covid-19 response means the country is unlikely to suffer the same fate as New South Wales, a Melbourne-based Otago epidemiologist believes.
A person playing Pokemon Go and a boy-racer meet-up were among several breaches dealt with by Dunedin police on the first day of Alert Level 4 lockdown.
A parent's worst nightmare came to a happy ending after a three-year-old boy went missing from a Dunedin household, with footprints found leading to the beach.