Dunedin's Harbourside upgrade plans should provide the catalyst for the city to "think imaginatively" about its future, a visiting British urban regeneration expert says.
Five years ago, the North Taieri industrial area near Mosgiel was being touted as Dunedin's next big industrial hope. At that time, the three major industries in Dukes Rd employed about 1350 staff...
Despite his new business premises being sited on industrial land, Chris Adams and his staff will have no industrial neighbours when they move in at the end of this month.
Mosgiel-based timber manufacturing plant New Zealand Wood Mouldings is laying off another 25 staff this week, its second round of redundancies in six months.
Dunedin's two student associations could be facing a long-term multimillion-dollar headache if a new Unipol student gymnasium facility is built.
Up to 600 people may be employed building Dunedin's new stadium, the Carisbrook Stadium Trust says.
For Peter Miller, looking after important Government documents and making them accessible to researchers has been more than just a job, and now his passion for history and its preservation has earned him recognition from his peers.
Provisional 2009 Otago University Students Association president Jo Moore says she is confident no-one will appeal a ruling that while she "stepped over" an election rule during her campaign, the breach was not serious enough to place the outcome of the election in doubt.
Provisional Otago University Students Association (OUSA) 2009 president Jo Moore should find out in the next few days whether two formal complaints about her election campaign have been upheld or tossed out.
About 1600 Dunedin tertiary staff will become members of a new union next year.
Staff at the Otago Museum are about to begin a mammoth task - piecing together all the information they hold about the museum's vast stamp collection and putting the results into electronic form.
Almost eight teaching positions will be cut from Otago Polytechnic over the next few months, chief executive Phil Ker said yesterday.
Olive Bain was so thrilled with the energy savings from her solar hot water system she thought everyone should have one.
It's official. Dunedin is the worst place in New Zealand in which to take advantage of free heat from the sun. Our solar radiation figures fall way below North Island and Central Otago urban centres, although there is some consolation - we rate better than Scott Base in Antarctic. So is it worth installing a solar hot water system in Dunedin? Reporter Allison Rudd investigates.
Despite many requests from visitors to make the popular "Otago's Otago" exhibition permanent, that was unlikely to happen, Otago Museum chief executive Shimrath Paul says.
Otago Museum chief executive Shimrath Paul has threatened to instruct his staff to stop authenticating historic treasures brought in by members of the public, as a long-running dispute between the museum and a government department comes to a head.
In terms of its popularity with visitors, Otago Museum is "right up there" with major international tourist attractions such as the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, chief executive Shimrath Paul maintains.
An award presented to the University of Otago for the quality of support provided to international students recognised Otago's belief that caring for students was an institutional responsibility, the woman in charge of international students says.
New Zealand's first state-of-the-art gene sequencing machine has proved a commercial success in its first year of operation, generating almost $2 million in revenue.
Waimate police are trying to piece together the movements of a Christchurch man seriously injured when the van he was driving left the road and crashed into a hedge at Glenavy, north of Oamaru, on Saturday.