Hamish MacLean

More than 100 households went without power briefly yesterday when Powernet crews cut the power in Warrington and then restored it after realising their work had not been properly publicly notified.

As New Zealand travellers pile into camper vans to discover beaches and bistros across the country, the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival organiser says limiting guests to domestic writers...

With Otago Polytechnic nearly full to the brim with New Zealand students this year, the institution is due to post a more than $1 million surplus on the back of student revenue.

Cigarette butts, ready-to-drink cans and random pieces of plastic debris were among the bits of other people’s mess that 7-year-old Piper McGaw cleaned up at St Kilda’s sand dunes on Saturday.

Peaceful protests are being met with bullets in Myanmar, and in Dunedin at the weekend a group of protesters raised their voices to support those resisting the Southeast Asian nation’s February 1...

Water upgrades delaying roadworks in the St Clair area are nearly complete and the $1 million peanut-shaped roundabout for Forbury Rd will be installed soon.

OceanaGold has welcomed investigations under way to rule out all possible sources of lead in an Otago community’s water supply even after the mining company resurfaced on a list of possible...

A new treatment for a major killer of people with type 2 diabetes could be in the works after a significant University of Otago discovery.

Poor groundwater has been found in areas across Otago, particularly around Lower Clutha and in North Otago.

The Climate Change Commission should follow Dunedin’s example and move to curb climate change faster than it proposes, the Dunedin City Council says.

Spending 10 years in charge of the University of Otago has been the job of a lifetime, outgoing University of Otago vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne says.

The cost of upgrading the Dunedin Civic Centre has increased from $3 million to $4.4 million.

The New Zealand sea lion pup at the centre of a stoush surrounding sand excavation at a Dunedin beach is believed to have surfaced at a sea lion nursery nearby.

A request for Otago Polytechnic to permanently fly the Maori flag outside its Forth St campus has been referred to local Maori for further consultation.

A scaffolding shortage could be another sign of a red hot building market putting pressure on the construction sector.

Otago and Southland water supplies could contain levels of nitrates that international research has linked to a risk of bowel cancer.

Otago Polytechnic Students’ Association president Ezra Tamati is campaigning for the Dunedin institute of skills and technology to permanently fly the Maori flag outside its Forth St campus.