Pavers left over after Dunedin’s George St upgrade could cover an area equivalent to more than five basketball courts and the city council says their $265,000 cost is worth it in the long run.
An "extraordinary trailblazer" for women in medicine is to be awarded an honorary doctor of laws at tomorrow’s University of Otago graduation ceremony.
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance unit, was killed outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in what police described as a targeted attack by a gunman.
Researchers have again called for the government to consider ending the sale of vaping products in dairies and service stations, capping retailer numbers and preventing vape stores from operating within 500m of schools and marae.
Residents of Canterbury's Castle Hill village have been encouraged to evacuate as a spreading scrub fire at Bridge Hill continues to burn out of control.
The Health Commissioner will seek an apology from the former Health Minister, after she suggested at Parliament he had "reputation for cooking the books".
Health New Zealand officials are not ruling out cutting some specialist services from Dunedin and moving them to Christchurch, as the city awaits the fate of the new Dunedin hospital.
Warning: distressing content. A Dunedin healer who sexually assaulted seven of his clients will be released from jail 18 months before the end of his sentence.