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Career stitched up: Keen upholsterer retiring

Otago Furniture Company upholsterer Dennis Dunn will retire next week after more than 50 years on...

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Career stitched up: Keen upholsterer retiring

‘‘Do I still get splinters?" Pfft." After more than 50 years of working with wood and upholstery, furniture maker Dennis Dunn reckons he has hands like Kevlar.

Free at last from a life of danger

Iraqi television journalist Amjed Alsaad (front) with (from left) son Radhwan (15), wife Rasha,...

Free at last from a life of danger

Amjed Alsaad is looking forward to a quiet life in New Zealand without daily death threats and assassination attempts.

Drink-drive charge after crash into parked cars

About 1100 people have been killed and a further 5300 injured in drink-driving crashes during the...

Drink-drive charge after crash into parked cars

A 36-year-old man is facing a drink-driving charge after crashing into two parked cars at the Dunedin Holiday Park.

Alleged assault in supermarket carpark

Alleged assault in supermarket carpark

Police are searching for a 44-year-old man who allegedly punched another man in the face in a central city supermarket carpark yesterday.

Rain, gales, sun, snow—South to get it all

The Soldiers' Monument looks out over the snow-flanked Otago Harbour yesterday. PHOTO: STEPHEN...

Rain, gales, sun, snow—South to get it all

The hills around Otago and Southland could be in for a dusting of snow on Monday.

Uni cuts science degrees, no job losses planned

Uni cuts science degrees, no job losses planned

The University of Otago will phase out its bachelor of applied science programme from the start of next year.

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‘Back on the horse’ after bone-shattering 24m fall

Anna Parsons kayaks in the Tasman district recently. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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‘Back on the horse’ after bone-shattering 24m fall

Apart from a slight limp, no-one would ever guess Anna Parsons has survived a 24m fall in a climbing accident which broke nearly every bone in her body last year.

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Anzac Day forecast to be warm, dry

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Anzac Day forecast to be warm, dry

Rain forecast for the start of next week will depart on Tuesday, making way for a balmy Anzac Day this year.

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Rubbish ‘not fair’, pupils tell university

Ōpoho School pupils (from left) Thea Taylor (7), Amelia Taylor (9), Joshua Bell (8), Aoife Bell ...

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Rubbish ‘not fair’, pupils tell university

In an open letter to the University of Otago, pupils from Ōpoho School have shamed Dunedin’s tertiary students for leaving a scenic city park in a disgusting state with their partying antics.

Travelling the South Island in the lap of luxury

Katy and John Parish stand beside their 1923 Bentley 3-litre TT. They are joined by (rear, from...

Travelling the South Island in the lap of luxury

Like most luxury cars, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces are made to be seen - not heard.

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Meeting shows support for Save Our Trains campaign

Save Our Trains national organising committee member Patrick Rooney with Double Fairlie...

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Meeting shows support for Save Our Trains campaign

Forget planes and automobiles — trains were the focus of a public meeting on Saturday, aimed at saving them and, ultimately, expanding them into a major form of public transport again.

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Nurses call for end to crisis

Hundreds of Dunedin nurses and their supporters march up Lower Stuart St towards the Octagon on...

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700 attend Octagon protest over nurse staffing shortages

About 700 nurses, their families and supporters have rallied in Dunedin, calling on political parties to address the nurse staffing crisis by increasing the number of nurses and their pay rates.

Concern at declining measles vaccination

Concern at declining measles vaccination

Concern is flaring again in health circles over the declining number of children being vaccinated against measles in New Zealand.

Doctors make ‘epic’ 66-day trek to the South Pole

Dunedin adventurer Dr Richard Stephenson tows sleds with 165kg of supplies, on a 1404km...

Doctors make ‘epic’ 66-day trek to the South Pole

What could be worse than howling gales, blizzards and temperatures regularly dropping below -40degC?

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Victim ‘distraught’ at new inquiry deadline

The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care was due to hand over its report by June, but it will now...

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Victim ‘distraught’ at new inquiry deadline

A Dunedin man, recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, is "distraught" he may never hear the word "sorry" from the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care.

Nurses to rally, call for crisis to top election agenda

Nurses to rally, call for crisis to top election agenda

Dunedin nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora are expected to pack the Octagon again on Saturday to rally for a fix to New Zealand’s health crisis.

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Skipping the queue by placing trust in somewhere new

Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie was one of the first patients to get surgery at the city’s new...

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Skipping the queue by placing trust in somewhere new

When Anthony Ritchie was told he was going to need major bowel surgery, his first thought was: am I going to last long enough to have it, given the lengthy public waiting lists?

Ballerina sponge honoured

A tiny Latrunculia tutu (ballerina sponge) microskeleton found in Oamaru has been named as one of...

Ballerina sponge honoured

Most of us have heard of SpongeBob SquarePants — a box-shaped sea sponge that wears brown shorts and a red tie.

Egg shortage hampering city business

Patti’s and Cream ice cream scooper Fiona Scholtz serves ice cream in a container because the...

Egg shortage hampering city business

Patti's and Cream has had to stop making its signature ice cream waffle cones, as the nationwide egg shortage starts to bite.

Lakes’ guardians mark 50 years

The Guardians of Lakes Manapouri, Monowai and Te Anau turns 50 this year.

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