Almost five months since it closed, the Gardens Tavern building remains empty and its new owner, the University of Otago, has not decided what it will do with the property.
Three Otago Polytechnic students may have devised the ultimate in comfort and convenience - a software program which enables Forsyth Barr Stadium patrons to order food and drinks via their mobile phones and have them delivered to their seats.
Two Otago Polytechnic trainee chefs have missed out on being selected to represent New Zealand in a cooking competition.
A proposed 6.3% increase in tuition fees for most University of Otago students next year is too much, Otago University Student Association (OUSA) president Harriet Geoghegan says.
They may be many thousands of kilometres away from Dunedin, but University of Otago graduates from all over the world are being invited to elect three members to the university's governing council.
The Tertiary Education Union wants the University of Otago to overturn a decision to disestablish three full-time Maori studies positions at the College of Education.
The annual tuition fee-setting exercise for the University of Otago council yesterday followed a now-familiar pattern.
Vacancies and delays in appointing staff have contributed to a healthy operating surplus for the University of Otago.
A 48-hour radiographers' strike affecting Dunedin Hospital has been called off, but the battle lines have been drawn in the increasingly bitter dispute between radiographers' union Apex and district health boards.
Otago Polytechnic will have a static roll and reduced government funding next year, but is not surprised.
Otago Polytechnic is "proving its capabilities internationally", undertaking its fifth management contract with Bahrain Polytechnic, chief executive Phil Ker says.
Emma Holden already knows plenty about the science of food. Now she is proving to be a rising star at the practical side.
Dunedin businessman Wayne Graham has been handed a new challenge - overseeing the expansion of the LJ Hooker Ltd empire in New Zealand.
There have been changes at the top for the Mosgiel Taieri Community Board.
It was a manouevre two years in the planning and an hour and a-half in the preparation.
The Otago Youth Adventure Trust is waiting for an engineer's report before deciding whether it is safe to rebuild the dormitories and sauna at Berwick Lodge destroyed by a landslip in May.
Hauling a sopping wet, 46kg dog from a river is not generally part of a police officer's job description.
Dunedin could have a permanent indoor market next year.
The University of Otago is searching for new offices for some of its Christchurch staff after having to vacate the leased St Elmo Courts building in Hereford St.
Otago Polytechnic has good basic policies and procedures in place to cope with a disaster, a review carried out after last month's Christchurch earthquake has found.
