Structured games with parents help children
Structured games with parents help children
Research suggests that playing some structured games with parents could help make a positive difference to children's future lives.
John Gibb
Conservator leaving post
Conservator leaving post
The Otago Museum is advertising internationally for a new conservator, and there are concerns staff may ''struggle to meet'' deadlines and commitments.
Parkinson's better understood - prof
Parkinson's better understood - prof
Developing an effective therapy for Parkinson's disease still remains a formidable challenge but some underlying disease mechanisms are being better understood, Prof John Reynolds says.
Artistic licence flies free
Artistic licence flies free
Dunedin artist Frank Gordon recently completed this, the second of two murals by him in Halsey St, Dunedin, in the waterfront industrial area.
Expo teaches teens about road safety
Expo teaches teens about road safety
The first of about 1500 Dunedin and Otago secondary school pupils attended the latest annual ''Safer Journeys Expo'' at the Edgar Centre yesterday.
Adventure-seeker study reveals insights into personality traits
Adventure-seeker study reveals insights into personality traits
Skydivers are much more than simply "sensation-seekers'', and are also more emotionally stable and no crazier than other people, new research shows.
Pair have finish line as goal
Pair have finish line as goal
Just finishing - not competing among themselves - will be the only goal for Matt Dick and Chris Higgs when they start a gruelling seven-day adventure race
The yellow rose of Zonta
The yellow rose of Zonta
Zonta Club of Metropolitan Dunedin members give Iloma Mollison a yellow rose to mark International Women's Day and Zonta International's Yellow Rose Day.
Physio offers benefits for osteoarthritis
Physio offers benefits for osteoarthritis
Physiotherapy exercise programmes provide significant benefits for people with painful osteoarthritis in knee and hip joints, and also cut healthcare costs, new research shows.
Dunedin 'best city', say residents, new citizens
Dunedin 'best city', say residents and new NZ citizens
Dunedin has few bigger fans than four members of the Sri Lankan-born Udamulla family, who became New Zealand citizens yesterday.
Call for affordable dental care hailed
Call for affordable dental care hailed
Dental researcher Murray Thomson is ''very pleased'' the New Zealand Medical Association is calling for a ''comprehensive and affordable dental service'' to be made available for all.
Second-warmest for Dunedin, 'unusually high' temps in region
Second-warmest for Dunedin, 'unusually high' temps in region
Dunedin's summer was its second-warmest on record, and some unusually high temperatures were also recorded elsewhere in Otago and Southland, as NZ experienced its third-warmest summer, Niwa figures show.
Albino possum found in trap
Albino possum found in trap
Otago Peninsula Biodiversity Group trustee David Chalmers holds a dead albino possum found in a humane-kill trap at Te Rauone Beach, on the Otago Peninsula, yesterday.
Variety on show at Middlemarch
Variety on show at Middlemarch
The latest Strath Taieri A&P Show, held on Saturday, was a success, show secretary Michelle Tisdall said yesterday.
Dunedin pupils show support for youth climate campaign
Dunedin pupils show support for youth climate campaign
An information night at Knox Church's Stuart Hall at the weekend, to discuss the Schools Strike 4 Climate rally in the Octagon on March 15, was a "great success", Zak Rudin (16) said yesterday.
Fifty firefighters battle blaze near Kurow
Fifty firefighters battle blaze near Kurow
About fifty firefighters, backed by about 15 fire appliances and tankers and four helicopters using monsoon buckets, today brought a fire under control which had been burning in grass and trees, in...
Scholarship will help geneticist's research
Scholarship will help geneticist's research
A Fulbright scholarship will help University of Otago scientist Associate Prof Julia Horsfield learn about powerful new techniques which could revolutionise our understanding of cancer and some...
Proportion 'difficult to justify'
Proportion 'difficult to justify'
Retired archivist Stuart Strachan is "extraordinarily concerned" at suggestions that Archives New Zealand is paying 67% of its budget in "imposed central costs" to the Internal Affairs Department.
Museum has big plans for new lottery grant funding
Museum has big plans for new lottery grant funding
Otago Museum director Dr Ian Griffin is ''delighted'' the museum has gained two lottery grants totalling $350,000, for projects marking 250 years since the first onshore meetings between Maori and...
Praise for public plastic recycling trial
Praise for public plastic recycling trial
Dunedin firm Packit Packaging, which makes plastic food containers, has been praised by the plastics industry for its innovative public trial, launched in the city yesterday, to encourage recycling...