Vaughan Elder

Two University of Otago staff were warned this year for downloading movies on the university's internet.

Dunedin City Councillor Lee Vandervis has slammed the council over its handling of allegations he made three years ago against the man at the centre of a $1.59 million fraud.

Other councils across New Zealand can learn from the $1.59 million fraud committed at the Dunedin City Council, Local Government New Zealand president Lawrence Yule says.

A researcher who has gained more than $12 million in research funding throughout his career has won Otago School of Medical Sciences' top award.

The excessive lifestyle of the man at the centre of a $1.59 million fraud at the Dunedin City Council was among the ''red flags'' the council ignored, investigators say.

A former energy adviser to United States President Barack Obama says there is cause for hope when it comes to global action on climate change.

The University of Otago has delayed the start of construction on two of the largest buildings in its more than $600 million building programme.

The soon-to-depart general manager of Otago University Students' Association believes he is leaving the organisation in good shape.

Silver Fern Farms faces a bill of up to $3 million after it was ruled it made more than 100 Dunedin seasonal meat workers redundant.

A group of Otago Polytechnic students has won a national design award for creating an innovative building that does not require consent.

Saying goodbye to their pupils will be an emotional moment for two teachers at Dunedin's Sara Cohen School who have almost 65 years' combined experience.

After almost 25 years of silence, Otago Boys' High School's historic bell was rung yesterday to mark the end of the school year.

A comprehensive  cookbook containing family favourites is on sale to raise money for Montessori at Mosgiel.

A University of Otago researcher is looking into how a child exercising restraint in scoffing marshmallows influences their prospects later in life.

. Dunedin's Ironic Cafe has been judged New Zealand's finest, beating more than 1100 entrants

An expanding Emerson's Brewery is set to become a ''world-class'' tourist destination now an agreement has been reached to buy a new site.

The building on Quarantine Island in Otago Harbour was close to being engulfed in flames after a child playing with matches caused a hedge fire last night.