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Cheap flights taking priority over schooling: rector

Otago Boys’ High School rector Richard Hall

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Cheap flights taking priority over schooling: rector

A Dunedin principal says some parents are more interested in taking advantage of cheap flights than sending their children to school.

Prentice show raising money for trip

Taieri College pupil Bridey Dalton, 17, doing a microphone check for her grandmother Suzanne...

Prentice show raising money for trip

Having a famous grandmother to call on has come up trumps for a Taieri College pupil fundraising for a trip to Europe.

Pupils cooking for a cause

John McGlashan College year 12 pupil Lachie Sutherland, 16, places the potato on top of the...

Pupils cooking for a cause

Convincing teenage boys to cook 150 cottage pies that they will not eat is no easy task.

Teenage learner driver crashes trying to avoid checkpoint

Teenage learner driver crashes trying to avoid checkpoint

A learner driver came out unscathed after crashing into another car when he tried to avoid a police checkpoint in Dunedin.

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KiwiSaver 36% gender gap: caregiver cites low pay

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KiwiSaver 36% gender gap: caregiver cites low pay

A Southland caregiver says KiwiSaver has not set her up for retirement as research revealed a more than 30% gap between the amount men and women are contributing to it each year.

Teen had to be freed from flipped car

An 18-year-old had to be freed from a car after an alleged teenage drink-driver crashed into a culvert in Mosgiel early yesterday.

Boy found in serious condition at base of cliff

Emergency services at the scene. Photo: Gregor Richardson

Boy found in serious condition at base of cliff

A boy has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after he was seen lying at the bottom of a cliff in Dunedin.

Naked elderly man arrested for indecent act on beach

A 79-year-old repeat offender has been caught performing an indecent act in front of young girls at a beach.

Naked 79-year-old arrested for indecent act at St Clair beach

A repeat offender was caught performing an indecent act in front of young girls at Dunedin’s St Clair beach.

Teen passenger trapped in car after fleeing Mosgiel disorder

An 18-year-old had to be freed from a car after an alleged teenage drink-driver crashed into a culvert in Mosgiel early this morning.

The best view in town

The best view in town

WashCo’s Shinya Nomura cleans the ASB Regional Centre Otago windows yesterday.

Rotting sign to be replaced with replica

The old and decaying Bethunes Gully sign that used to arch over the entrance to Cluny St was...

Rotting sign to be replaced with replica

A Dunedin sign that evoked the entrance to another world is to be replaced with a replica.

Leave our rubbish bins alone, pupils say

Bayfield High School pupils (from left) Anika Franklyn, 15, Finn Carlson, 17, Kaitlin Rodger, 17,...

Leave our rubbish bins alone, pupils say

Soiled nappies and empty alcohol bottles are just some of the items a Dunedin secondary school’s fed-up pupils keep discovering in their bins.

One hurt after Warbird crashes

The Tiger Moth was damaged in the crash. PHOTO CAMERON SCOTT/FACEBOOK

One hurt after Warbird crashes

One person has been moderately hurt after a 1930s British biplane flown at the Warbirds over Wanaka air show crashed while landing in Cromwell.

Boost of at least $40m from air show

Some of the 70,000 spectators track a USAF F-16 jet through the sky at Warbirds over Wanaka over...

Boost of at least $40m from air show

Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow will have injected more than $40 million into the resort town’s economy, the Wanaka Business Chamber says.

One hurt after Warbird crashes in Cromwell

One person has been moderately hurt after a 1930s British biplane flown at the Warbirds over Wanaka air show crashed while landing in Cromwell.

Misogynistic attitudes tackled

Talking Masculinities Project researchers (from left) Dr Luc Cousineau, Dr Kris Taylor and...

Misogynistic attitudes tackled

A disturbing number of teenage boys are learning how to treat women from misogynist online influencers, Dunedin secondary schools have been told.

Disabled community protests funding rules, cuts

Members of Dunedin’s disabled community march down George St on Thursday. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

Disabled community protests funding rules, cuts

Dunedin's disabled community feels dismissed and undervalued by the government’s recently announced funding reductions.

Lack of light on charter school conversion

Schools and communities are being "left in the dark" about state school to charter school conversion, the secondary schools union leader says.

Team effort to retrieve ring from drain

Dunedin man Andrew James stands in a North Dunedin drain holding his friend’s wedding ring....

Team effort to retrieve ring from drain

The search for a lost ring brought together an unlikely fellowship for a quest to the depths of a muddy North Dunedin drain.

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