Several Dunedin secondary schools have recorded surges of about 20% in their year 9 rolls this year, leaving some in the sector hoping it will stave off Ministry of Education intervention in the city's secondary network.
A war is being waged between Dunedin secondary schools, which are estimated to be spending more than $300,000 in total each year on marketing to attract pupils.
For those wanting to ride in a 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale, this might be as close as you will ever get. John Lewis gloats about his experience in one of the fastest and most expensive cars in the world.
The Dunedin City Council denies the city's annual summer festival is on its last legs.
A badly decomposed body has been discovered in a house in Mataura, in Southland.
The primary and secondary education of a child born in New Zealand today is expected to cost parents up to $326,773, a new study has found.
The Year of the Monkey is about to begin and to help celebrate the Chinese New Year in Dunedin, some of China's top acrobats and theatre performers will put on a show.
Remnants of Dunedin life in the 1860s are being uncovered by heavy machinery and archaeologists this week following the demolition of the Barningham Building at the University of Otago Dental School.
Getting debilitating motion sickness at the sight of a boat in water can be a major problem for passionate rowers - such as Enid Barron.
When the line on Jordan Pearson's rod took off in the Dunedin Harbour basin yesterday, he knew dinner was going to be spectacular.
It may seem like Paul Gourlie and Hidenori Koike are just taking a leisurely bike ride along State Highway 1, but in reality they are watching you.
There always seems to be an awkward silence whenever Chris Hamblin mentions he sleeps with his piano.
Apparently, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing - especially when it comes to the Kelly triplets.
Mitch Pereira is "one in a million'' - but not for the reasons the talented young rugby player wants to be.
The tertiary education sector has given big ticks to Labour leader Andrew Little's proposal to provide three years of free post-school education so young New Zealanders ‘‘can thrive in the 21st century economy''.
Two Dunedin violinists are among the country's top classical musicians to be selected for the 2016 NZSO National Youth Orchestra.
Yoga is probably the last thing you would expect to see a hardened, windswept biker doing.
Julie Woods has visited the seven wonders of the world, smelt whisky distilling in the highlands of Scotland, heard Big Ben chime 12 noon while standing on London Bridge, eaten Margherita pizza in Italy and touched the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
Dangling precariously from a sailing ship's 35m-high mast in soggy weather used to shiver Matthew Smith's timbers.
A "man-in-the-street'' survey conducted by a retired Dunedin academic has found 90% of respondents have trouble recognising the difference between the Australian and the New Zealand flags.
