Rebecca Fox

A suggestion that students should pay a set amount for year-long use of Dunedin's buses has been supported by Otago regional councillors.

University of Otago students and staff will have a home away from home when vice-chancellor Prof David Skegg opens Otago House at the National University of Samoa later this month.

If you feel like you had a real summer in Otago this year, you could be right - Dunedin recorded its highest number of sunshine hours since records began in 1947 and some Central Otago towns experienced their highest average maximum temperatures on record.

He has flipped pancakes wearing his cassock, welcomed returning royal albatrosses, and is credited with rejuvenating St Paul's Cathedral, but now its dean, the Very Rev David Rice, is moving on.

Four ‘‘mini-townhouses'' at Holy Cross College in Mosgiel are nearly complete and awaiting the arrival of three semi-retired priests who will make them their homes.

Raising awareness of two of New Zealand's endangered species is the aim of a Dunedin student who is putting together an album of music trumpeting the cause of Hector's and Maui's dolphins.

The breeding season of New Zealand's most endangered bird, the kakapo, is off to a great start with at least two fertile eggs laid on Codfish Island and two female birds, previously thought to be too young, also laying eggs.

Established designers meet emerging designers in a new way for this year's id Dunedin Fashion Week.

Strutting your stuff down 110m of railway station platform is more exercise than you might think, model Zaytia Coulter says.