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Wednesday 22nd January, 2020
The last place you'd expect to find an orchard is in the backyard of a Dunedin property in the middle of the city's student quarter.
But that's exactly what Rory Harding has created at his George St home.
Wednesday 22nd January, 2020
A University of Otago field trip to Brighton on Tuesday armed a group of secondary school teachers with techniques for teaching geology in the classroom.
The trip was part of the university's annual advanced school sciences academy, which engages senior secondary school pupils and their teachers in a week of science-based learning.
Tuesday 21st January, 2020
A University of Otago academic says climate change may be responsible for fish from warmer waters being caught in Otago waters.
Professor Steve Wing says these waters were once too cold for kingfish, but it didn't stop a visiting retired pastor from hauling up a whopper this week.
Monday 20th January, 2020
Skipping ropes and croquet were just some of the entertainment at a Victorian-style high tea in Dunedin yesterday.
About 20 members of the Dunedin Steampunk Society made the most of a sunny Sunday in the Dunedin Botanic Garden to enjoy entertainment without electrical gadgets.
Friday 17th January, 2020
The sky could be the limit for a fantasy role playing game created in the 1970s.
These school holidays a local 'dungeon master' is sharing his Dungeons and Dragons experience points with some younger fighting fantasy fans.
Friday 17th January, 2020
After flying seriously ill children to Starship Hospital, Dunedin man Tony McCombe wanted to give something back.
And Thursday he did just that, launching a programme called 'Uplift in Kind', which is set to lift the spirits of less fortunate children.
Friday 17th January, 2020
Mark Wellington cherished the final years he spent with his wife after she was diagnosed with blood cancer.
Now he wants Pharmac to make good on its promise to fund other life-saving cancer drugs.
Friday 17th January, 2020
The renovation of Dunedin's former prison has received a funding boost towards stage two of its refurbishment project.
The donation is set to go towards beginning re-roofing and repainting the cell blocks of the 124-year-old building.
Thursday 16th January, 2020
School pupils from around the country are learning more about the surprising world of nanochemistry by creating bright colours in fluids.
More than 360 secondary school pupils are attending the University of Otago latest Hands-on at Otago programme this week, exploring study options at the university.
Wednesday 15th January, 2020
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Solutions to the annual rubbish problem in the student quarter are being sought, after furniture from flats was dumped on footpaths around North Dunedin in recent weeks.
While a Dunedin City Council inspection of the student area in December last year found the streets mostly clean and tidy, another inspection last week found furniture, rubbish and mattresses dumped on footpaths.
The DCC has spent eight and a half thousand dollars in recent weeks removing twenty six truckloads of waste from the campus area.