John Lewis

There was a look of horror as Hamilton pilot Richard Small watched his 1969 Piper Twin Comanche touch down at Taieri Aerodrome and crash off the end of the runway yesterday.

Logan Park High School musicians Jacobi Kohu-Morris (15, left) and Blake McAlevey-Scurr (17) provide some entertainment as international pupils at the school celebrate Race Unity Day.

The 54-year-old man saved from his burning Mornington flat on Monday night may have been rescued twice, by different people.

Otago school principal representatives remain distrustful about the troubled Novopay system, despite a Government support package and a review which says the system can be fixed.

Even though it was once New Zealand's largest school, there will be little pomp and circumstance when the King Edward Technical College building turns 100 today.

A Mornington woman is being hailed a heroine after running into a burning Dunedin City Council flat to pull a 54-year-old man to safety.

The neighbours of a man who lay dead in his South Dunedin home for more than six weeks say he was ''reclusive'' and would sometimes not answer his door or phone calls.

Irish ballads and rain weren't the only things in the air for St Patrick's Day this year.

A 75-year-old man may have been lying dead in his South Dunedin house for weeks before his body was discovered yesterday, Dunedin police say.

The hard work is finally paying off for Nicole Samuel.