Vaughan Elder

Confirmation a film starring a pair of Hollywood heavyweights is shooting in Otago as early as the end of this month is a ''major coup'' for the region.

University of Otago medical student Alex Hedley is unsure how he is going to come up with $20,000 to pay for his last year of study.

More students are being disciplined for unruly behaviour, but the university says the increase is down to the occupants of a few bad flats.

Evidence suggests young people are less engaged in New Zealand's democratic process than at any time in recent history.

The newly crowned Miss Samoa was given a lively welcome by Dunedin's Pacific Island community as she arrived back at Dunedin International Airport yesterday.

Traffic was backed up after a car crashed on Brighton Rd in Dunedin this afternoon.

The fallout from AgResearch's restructuring plan continues and two senior scientists, one described as a ''rock star'', are the latest to quit its Invermay campus.

Plans to revive Dunedin's best-known student watering hole could be hampered by proposed new liquor laws.

Job seekers sick of receiving rejection letters are the target market for a new online service launched by Otago Polytechnic.

Dunedin bar owners are angry at being left out of discussions over a draft alcohol policy which some fear would put them out of business.

Juggling medical training with running a charity aimed at helping New Zealand children living in poverty is a struggle for Briar Hunter.

Otago Polytechnic students are sick of year after year of fee rises, but the institution said it had no choice when it voted to increase them again.

The Otago University Students' Association says proposed new alcohol laws could put students off coming to Dunedin by damaging the city's vibrant nightlife.

Nicky Hager says he did not write Dirty Politics to change the outcome of the election, but is confident it will lead to ''concrete change'' in New Zealand's political landscape.

A Dunedin student is still in shock after going from being a farmhand to modelling at New York fashion week.

A Rotavirus vaccine trialled at Dunedin Hospital could save more than half a million lives a year.

University of Otago student and keen artist Tara Millar (29) holds her painting of her brother riding in the Chatham Islands, which is among works by students being auctioned for charity tomorrow.