
Tauranga lawyer earns PhD
Leading local family law specialist Fiona Mackenzie was awarded a PhD in law from Otago University yesterday, three decades after
Leading local family law specialist Fiona Mackenzie was awarded a PhD in law from Otago University yesterday, three decades after
A new $240 million mozzarella plant will be the single largest foodservice investment in the history of New Zealand's dairy industry.
Environmental Protection Authority report finds a number of incidents on the West Coast including one where someone removed signs when baits were still toxic.
Convicted killer Colin Bouwer's bid to block his deportation from New Zealand has been quashed.
Despite tragedy at the weekend, it is one of the "safest" lakes around, the harbourmaster says, because of the clearly-defined areas for passive recreation, such as swimming.
The girlfriend of a 19-year-old man who drowned in an Otago lake on Saturday has criticised the lack of signage on the shore.
A man who saved a young girl from drowning yesterday then went home to get his dive gear to recover the body of a young man.
Police have confirmed a 19-year-old man has died while swimming in Kawarau River on Saturday.
One person has died and another has been airlifted to hospital with critical injuries.
In the aftermath of the crash that killed a young farmer, the sentencing judge said ''this is not a North Otago issue in isolation'' but rather an issue for all of NZ.
Queenstown Police are floating the idea of a 24-hour ban on public drinking in the wake of last Saturday's Crate Day chaos in the resort.
Schools are struggling to recruit hundreds of teachers ahead of the 2017 school year.
The third stage of a subdivision next to Jack's Point golf course sold for between $250,000 and $300,000.
People across New Zealand have been basking in today's sunshine as the first weekend of summer did not disappoint.
A photo of two "hot" Southern District police officers posing with puppies has garnered hundreds of likes on Facebook.
A man who put a 3-year-old into a scalding bath, causing the boy's skin to "flake off", has been jailed for nearly four years.
The more porn a man watches, the less sexually intimate he is with his female partner, a new study suggests.
An historic four-storey building near Dunedin's Octagon has been damaged in a suspicious blaze.
Police have released the last name of a Chinese National killed in a three car crash on State Highway 1 near Moeraki last week.
One of the men allegedly behind the Dunedin burglary of a huge weapons cache can now be named.
The signs of summer are among us with pohutakawa trees flowering already and forecasters say the official first day of the season on Thursday will be calm and dry.
A Dunedin mother-of-three missing since Thursday last week is in Australia, police have confirmed.
As border seizures of drugs go up, a Dunedin man reveals the depths to which he sank after being caught in the dark web.
A man has been charged for using a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol after a passenger on a quad bike he was driving
Santa is not coming to Dunedin-based lines company Delta this year after chief executive Grady Cameron cancelled end-of-year function.
Motorists should think twice before parking on a roadside near Dunedin Airport.
It may be time to put away the togs - scorching temperatures on Wednesday aren't likely to be repeated today, the MetService says. While
Three young children have been treated in hospital for potentially-deadly meningococcal disease.