John Lewis

Sparks from a car that lost one of its wheels as it travelled through the Kawarau Gorge near Cromwell are being blamed for starting a large grass fire in the area last night.

Waitaki Boys' High School has temporarily appointed Clive Rennie as rector of the troubled Oamaru school.

It has been just over four years since Shania Hutton crossed Riselaw Rd, on her way to buy lollies at the local dairy.

A 25% decline in the number of children being home-schooled in Otago during the past decade may be due to the quality of education in the region's state schools, a home-school support organisation says.

Winning a Kiwibank Local Hero Award is no laughing matter for Dunedin businessman and comedy magician Jonathan Usher.

Some say John Aitken has worked in the foundry business so long he has bronze in his blood.

Lying on his back, alone in the middle of Ross Creek Forest, Nick Cornish's first thought after falling from his mountain bike and breaking his neck was: ‘‘Can I feel my feet?''

If Santa Claus is unlikely to slide down your chimney this year, his elves would like to know about it.

The Ministry of Education is refusing to say how many Otago education staff still owe money after they were overpaid when Novopay was first introduced.

You would think a man about to set a Guinness world record for cycling nearly 29,000km around the globe in less than 125 days, would be ecstatic.

Enterprise Dunedin has won another Government Regional Business Partner (RBP) contract that will allow the Dunedin City Council to continue providing support to small businesses in Otago.

No sooner did Nick Chisholm win one of the top awards at the New Zealand Attitude Awards than he was diverting attention away from himself by praising his fellow finalists.

A recipe for transforming food waste into biofuel and fertiliser has also turned out to be a recipe for success for six Kaikorai Valley College economics pupils, who won two prestigious awards at the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme National Awards last night.

Andrew Coshan's feet are happier than usual at the moment.

Margaret Wooffindin has seen more of the world than most.

Kate Truman was only one mark off getting a perfect score in the recent International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) English examination.