Prof Charles Gerba shook hands for what must have been the 100th time that day and kept talking as he seamlessly turned to the hand-wash dispenser and the paper towels.
The Southern economy could suffer if Dunedin Hospital loses its neurosurgery services and training at the University of Otago Medical School is affected, Otago Southland Employers' Association chief executive John Scandrett says.
A Dunedin woman who cycled the length of Britain to raise more than $30,000 for blind children plans to do the same at home - and to record the trip so blind people can also experience New Zealand.
Civilian marksmen could be offered a cash bounty to help keep New Zealand airports safe.
People waited for up to an hour in a queue that snaked from the Birch St wharf, in Dunedin, for their chance to visit HMNZS Otago.
There are fears a serious assault on a Dunedin taxi driver will spawn copycat crimes that could put more drivers in hospital.
Hundreds of Mosgiel people are among the first of thousands in the town to get a real and sustained taste of high-speed internet.
Some of Otago's biggest employers should be well enough managed to avoid putting new workers on a 90-day trial, Methodist Mission Dunedin chief executive Laura Black says.
Independent experts have been asked to see whether the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority's (EECA) potentially onerous audit system can be streamlined.
Dunedin's biggest taxi operator wants drivers assured a long-running licensing debacle which threatened to undermine their livelihoods really has been fixed.
Dunedin City Council staff charged more than $4.8 million to 206 civic purchase credit cards over three years, just-confirmed figures reveal.
Commercial boat owners could spend hundreds of dollars more to have their boats declared fit for service under new rules that are far from guaranteed to make the industry safer, a lobby group boss and surveying company director says.
A new scheme to subsidise household solar water-heating will replace a scheme that has had relatively little uptake in the South.
Householders, businesses and the public service will be encouraged to save energy to help make New Zealand as energy efficient as its OECD partners, a pair of updated government strategies released yesterday reveal.
Figures suggest fewer Otago people were bullied or had their pay docked last year but that more had problems with the minimum wage.
Special fares for unlimited trips, GPS-fed bus information and a radical change to make public transport a social good seem poised to electrify the race to the local body elections.
Aspiring dancers and marine scientists, and a new generation of Robert Burns Fellows, will benefit from the generosity of two university landlords.
University of Otago researchers who reconstructed the face of a 2500-year-old Anatolian peasant woman look likely to rebuild the face of a man around a skull found in the same ancient, buried city in Turkey.
Southern lignite has been turned into high-energy briquettes in Solid Energy's push to build an up-to $15 million briquetting plant in Southland.
More than $3 million will be spent by southern scientists as they develop long-life solar panels, work to alleviate age-related mobility loss and try to beat drench-resistant worms.
