A driver bound for Balclutha had their journey cut short on Dunedin’s Southern Motorway, after she was found to be more than four times over the legal breath alcohol limit.
School pupils are being introduced to alcohol at an increasingly younger age, making them more likely to develop poor drinking behaviours later in life, research shows.
She has cute freckles, despises long walks on the beach, but absolutely loves fishing with friends, long-haul travel and watching the sunsets at Taiaroa Head.
A rare World War 1 medal, awarded to a Dunedin man for courage and determination under heavy enemy shell fire, has fetched $650 more than the asking price at a recent auction.
Complaints about Otago and Southland early childhood education centres (ECEs) have more than doubled in the past year, Ministry of Education data shows.
Parents are becoming agitated about the number of half-days Waitaki Boys’ High School pupils are being asked to take off so teachers can take part in "staff wellbeing framework programmes".
It has been 60 years since Wakari School had its last major building development, so the community is not perturbed by a minor Covid-related delay to the building of its new learning centre.