John Lewis

A serial flag thief could be on the loose in Dunedin, police believe, after a New Zealand flag was stolen from Adams Flags and Accessories on Monday night.

Life for Shania Fox is somewhere over the rainbow these days - in a place where the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true.

Nearly one in five New Zealand parents are having to work two jobs to make enough money to support their children's learning, a Monash University and Australian Scholarships Group Education Programmes survey has found.

Dunedin South MP Clare Curran has waded into the King's High School enrolment scheme debate, revealing the school made an offer to negotiate with the Ministry of Education which was ''knocked back''.

When a child gets knocked over, bangs their knee or gets squirted with a hose, usually there are tears.

Aaron Pitts says if he ever sees another Christmas truffle again, it will be too soon - even if it is floating in zero gravity.

Warwick Holden got the shock of his life during a mathematics lesson at his Middlemarch school last Thursday morning.

Plans to establish a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys in South Dunedin have had another setback.

Otago children could be the first to benefit from dyslexia research being conducted by a Dunedin primary school principal next year.

A 21% drop in international fee-paying pupils in Otago over the past five years means the local economy has lost over $3.39 million in earnings.

Africa is calling for Katherine Boomer after she won the Otago Girls' High School Highgate Fellowship this week.

Dunedin secondary school pupils may be forced to attend the school nearest to them if one option proposed by the Ministry of Education is adopted.

Dunedin is ''bulging at the seams'', with many out-of-towners among the about 35,000 people heading to the Fleetwood Mac concert at Forsyth Barr Stadium tonight.

A growing sense of outrage in the wake of terrorist acts in Paris was evident among those who gathered in the Octagon last evening.

The tiniest of concerns about schoolwork sometimes keep Andy Larson awake at night.

Several Otago conservation projects will receive a $334,000 financial boost from the Department of Conservation in the latest round of Community Conservation Partnership Fund grants.

There is little in Dunedin to recognise the stand that conscientious objector Archibald Baxter, who was from Brighton, took during World War 1.