John Gibb

University of Otago researchers Dr Olivia Faull and Dr Damian Scarf have been awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowships, each worth $800,000.

The final turnout for Dunedin's local body elections is in the hands of the voters.

New Zealanders would be "shocked" if they knew the reality about the phosphate imported from Western Sahara to make New Zealand fertiliser, Tecber Ahmed Saleh said yesterday.

The University of Otago Business School not only runs New Zealand's highest internationally-rated MBA programme, it has also developed the country's first national MBA case competition.

You're close to nature but it's too loud to hear the birds when you're riding across the Otago spring countryside on a 1926 "sponge cake" motorbike.

Creating updated disabled access legislation will bring benefits for all New Zealanders, Dianne Rogers says.

Despite changeable spring weather, young holiday-makers Caleb (9) and Olivia (7) Scott, of Auckland, took their first dip at the St Clair Salt Water Pool on Saturday.

Snow came to the assistance of firefighters tackling a blaze in inland Otago overnight.

The "devastating" effects of climate change on the ocean are also threatening paua, New Zealand's most internationally well-known shellfish, new research shows.

University of Otago alumnus Prof Rob Knight has received the Pioneer Award, a leading US health research award totalling more than $5.5million.

A recent shortage of Jersey benne seed potatoes in Dunedin means some home gardeners may struggle to grow their own supplies for the festive table this Christmas.

A University of Otago academic disagrees with a claim by international researchers that few health benefits would result from reducing consumption of red and processed meat.

The University of Otago has appointed seven of its leading scholars to a "prestigious new role'' as sesquicentennial distinguished chairs.

Dunedin and Otago face huge problems - inadequate hospital scanning equipment, rural water allocation and quality issues, and climate change - but collaborative answers can be found.

Hidde Boers, of the Netherlands, enjoys yesterday's spectacular show at the Esplanade, at St Clair, Dunedin, yesterday afternoon, as high tide approached, peaking shortly before 6pm.

Volunteer firefighters have been called to tackle a shed fire at a rural property in Tapanui tonight.

Greenhouse gas emissions must be cut urgently if the worst effects of climate change on the world's oceans and the Antarctic are to be avoided, Prof Christina Hulbe warns.

An innovative study shows that a specialised diet, low in carbohydrates, is an effective treatment for children and adolescents with gastrointenstinal problems.