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.
Dunedin city organist David Burchell takes a master class in articulation in the St Joseph's Cathedral chapel during the first day of the Australia and New Zealand College of Organists Academy yesterday.
Staff morale in some Dunedin secondary schools is low in the wake of Ministry of Education discussions on how to make the city's secondary school network more efficient, an independent consultant has found.
This time last year, Melissa Bell was the principal of one of Otago's top girls' secondary schools.
It was all fun in the sun at Tomahawk Beach for Kim Bailey, until screams of alarm rolled in from the shoreline.
Total strangers acting like long-lost friends - that is the power of Fleetwood Mac.
A South Otago school principal is concerned 17 schools in the area are being portrayed by the Ministry of Education as endorsing the ministry's community of learning (COL), when not all are ''on board'' with the initiative yet.
Last week, Stanley's Hotel was a relatively peaceful place.
If those long days of sun, sand and sleep-ins are but a distant memory, and you have the back-to-work blues, David Bilkey might have a fix for you.
A declining number of pupils are applying for assistance from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, to help pay their NCEA exam fees.
Time and space may have moved on, but Iris Gallagher will always have a memento of the day she celebrated the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Warning signs are being put up by the Dunedin City Council at St Clair Beach this morning, following another close call in the surf this week.
Bumping along the road in an open carriage veteran vehicle amid heavy rain can be quite unpleasant for even the heartiest of car enthusiasts.
If you blink, you could miss the Corby Kestrel aerobatic plane at the Wings and Wheels Open Day on Sunday.
A long-forgotten Dunedin movie star has been resurrected after being found a little worse for wear in a paddock.
