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Scottie Scheffler tees off during the second round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky. Photo: Clare Grant-USA TODAY Sports Scottie Scheffler never considered not playing in the PGA Championship second round after his early-morning arrest on Friday and spent time stretching in his jail cell before competing at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

Photo: RNZ A transgender young person's attempt to perform top surgery on himself is a clear result of historical underfunding and inequitable access to gender-affirming healthcare, an expert says.

A major supplier of eggs to supermarkets is suggesting a mouse was planted in the supply room as a "malicious act" by an employee.

Like Burt Munro, Jeff Cameron reckons you live more in five minutes on a "motorsickle" going flat out than some people live in their lifetime.

Dunedin International Airport Ltd chief executive Daniel De Bono in Melbourne during a two-day trip to Australia this week. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The chief executive of Dunedin International Airport Ltd (Dial) has met representatives from Australian airports, airlines and tourism agencies in a bid to get transtasman flights off the ground.

Dunedin schools’ approach to bullying must change with the times, a school principal says.

The Dunedin City Council is maintaining a wall of silence about which of its senior managers is at the centre of a conduct investigation.

Aussies are continuing to flock to Queenstown, the only destination in the country to see real growth in the transtasman market since 2019.

Pembroke principal Brent Godfery. PHOTO: NIC DUFF Hundreds of North Otago pupils are missing out on full days of school because of a shortage of relievers.

Megan Kitching won the Best First Book Award Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry for her work 'At the Point of Seeing' at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards announced on Wednesday. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED When Dunedin-based Dr Megan Kitching started writing poems, she never thought they would be heard beyond her friends and family.

Making a small part of George St skater friendly is a good start, Dunedin’s skating community says.

PHOTOS: GREGOR RICHARDSON Grant Braes School pupils Millie Curtis and Manu Herbert, both 10, touch some pounamu given to the school by Jennifer and Ewan Duff at the opening of its new school hall, Awhi Rito, yesterday morning.

Ilisapeti (Betty) Feiloaki Feiloakitohi celebrates her graduation with her parents Helen and Vilisoni Feiloakitohi. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN Ilisapeti (Betty) Feiloaki Feiloakitohi never thought she would get a second chance at the University of Otago.

PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Boats moored in Deborah Bay are cast into darkness with the last of the sun lighting the volcanic rim of the Otago Peninsula recently.

PHOTO: OTAGO DAILY TIMES In May, 1984, a generous fall of snow at Brockville School just before classes ended supplied these hardy youngsters with their first taste of winter fun, although winter is still officially a month away.

Parliament Buildings, from left, Bowen House, the Beehive, and Parliament House. PHOTO: NZ HERALD They say that a fast game is a good game — but fast-tracking the game is another matter entirely.

People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union Leon Trotsky gives a May Day address as troops march in Red Square, Moscow. The inscription on the left reads "Proletariat of all countries still under the rule of the old world, join us on this 1 May. Our Greetings." — Otago Witness, 1.7.1924 Riga, Latvia: Soviet leaders who assure foreign pressmen of their peaceful motives, and explain that the Soviet military preparations are solely of a defensive nature, adopt an entirely different tone when addressing select gatherings of their own followers.

Today's cartoon from Voyager 2023 award winning cartoonist, Shaun Yeo.

Even when it comes to the Bard, things change.