Carla Green

Richard Reid has celebrated his birthday the same way for the past three years.

Climate change action may become impossible under the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, activists have told the Dunedin City Council.

About 50 yellow-eyed penguin chicks have died in Otago so far this season and a small-scale heatwave last month may be to blame.

Renowned researcher Vimla Patel began her academic career at the University of Otago in the 1960s. She left Dunedin in 1968 and has never been back. But she would like to. Carla Green reports.

Karuna Sindhu Dasa knows he might not get his iPad back, but he is holding out hope for the rest of his bag.

Astonishingly, Karitane man Ray Grubb is not yet sick of his car despite covering thousands of kilometres in the 2009 Land Rover 90 in eight months.

Ross Creek is expected to be teeming with joggers and walkers tomorrow evening who want to "reclaim'' the reserve after a young woman was sexually assaulted there last week.

The latest draft of Otago Polytechnic's drug and alcohol testing policy takes ''a sledgehammer to a problem that doesn't exist'', the Tertiary Education Union says.

Charlotte Macshane, husband Tim Camp and their children Viarnah (13) and Mineeka (6) Macshane-Camp were among a crowd of amateur whale watchers who trailed a pod of orcas in Otago Harbour on Saturday.

Bayfield High School pupil Harrison Campbell (15) was one of dozens who lined up to meet Nasa astronaut and retired United States Air Force Colonel Rex Walheim at Otago Museum's new planetarium on Saturday.

Phil Scorringe, his bearded son-in-law Steve Havard and a hefty group of other bikers gathered up children's toys for donation and headed to the Octagon on Saturday for the 32nd annual Bikers Rights Organisation New Zealand (Bronz) Otago toy run.

Port Chalmers whale watchers were sent into a flurry of excitement this afternoon when a pod of orcas was spotted near Deborah Bay.

Two patients died from choking while in the care of the Southern District Health Board, according to the latest serious adverse events report.

Otago Polytechnic is well on its way to an environmentally friendly future, says sustainable practice manager Steve Henry, pictured with woodchips, which replaced coal for heating fuel.

Some students will still be left in the lurch under an amended student loan policy, medical students and advocates say.

Rachel Fidow says she hates to miss out on a good night out.

The University of Otago's 2016 budget reveals an institution bracing for flat student enrolments and a challenging financial situation.

Despite many people's disbelief, the feminist pornography industry is thriving, a visiting American academic says.

A national company has axed plans for an electric car charging station in Dunedin after Delta announced a proposal to put in a charging station before the end of the year.