Carla Green

''It's called old age,'' John Patrick jokes when referring to his impending retirement.

The University of Otago is bungling the closure of its design school and making promises it cannot keep, students say.

Another bout of strong winds and hot, dry weather forecast for today has Otago firefighters on the alert.

Otago students have issued a lukewarm endorsement of the national students' association in a referendum that ended yesterday.

As work begins to extract 19th-century cobbles from Duke St, the Dunedin City Council says they may find a new home at a Jetty St pedestrian walkway.

Tuition fees will rise at the University of Otago next year, the university council has decided.

When Nola Coburn was younger, and feeling sad, her grandmother had a sure-fire solution.

The Aramoana salt marsh will soon be locked away behind a ''hoon''-proof gate if local conservationists get their way.

University of Otago domestic students face a 3% increase on ''already huge'' tuition fees for next year, meaning more than $900 more per year for some courses.

The University of Otago will decide if it wants to take a stand against the fossil fuel industry at its council meeting today.

Eleven rogue anglers been caught fishing illegally in a ''disappointing'' start to Otago's fishing season, Otago Fish & Game says.

One Mosgiel resident whose hedge burst into flame last night says she is ''one of the lucky ones''.

Former prime minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer spoke to more than 200 people at the University of Otago last night, addressing ''the most important environmental issue the planet faces'' - climate change.

New Zealand could still face multimillion-dollar lawsuits over its domestic legislation even under pared-back provisions of the massive trade agreement signed yesterday, critics say.

It was just under a decade ago that pigeon racing finally went digital, Ben Johnston says.

New Zealand is shirking its obligations on climate change and letting down its Pacific Island neighbours in the process, Emeritus Prof Sir Alan Mark says.

The University of Otago is host to New Zealand's Innocence Project, which works to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, Carla Green reports, on the heels of the second annual International Wrongful Conviction Day yesterday.