It's not that Frank Penny is ungrateful about receiving an award for 75 years' service to the Masonic Lodge - the 96-year-old just refuses to believe he has done anything particularly special to deserve it.
Columba College has announced a multimillion-dollar upgrade of its historic school, which will include turning the junior campus into a state-of-the-art facility, redeveloping the Bishopscourt building, and constructing new boarding facilities.
Tempers flared during a Chalmers Community Board meeting last night, when the NZ Transport Agency announced it would be at least another two years before construction could begin on the St Leonards to Port Chalmers cycleway.
A 30-year-old Dunedin man has been given a pre-charge warning after allegedly assaulting a Dunedin City Council parking warden on George St today.
Kavanagh College is continuing to build a reputation for creating education leaders.
Some of the South Island's greatest wildlife conservation minds have flocked to Dunedin to discuss how a wildlife hospital might be established in the city.
Recording its highest roll in "living memory'' has prompted Tahuna Normal Intermediate to discuss school expansions and enrolment zones with the Ministry of Education.
John Egenes has performed in front of thousands, with high-profile musicians such as Lyle Lovett, Pete Seeger, Nanci Griffith, Jerry Jeff Walker and Guy Clark.
School libraries are usually the domain of studious pupils, cramming their brains with information in preparation for exams or assessments.
A new collaboration between four Dunedin primary schools appears to be keeping a lid on bulging rolls and keeping teacher-pupil ratios in check.
If you want to learn the language of man, read the Bible. But if you want to learn the language of God, then study physics.
Brian Dagg was more than likely recalling the words of mountaineering pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary after reaching the top of Mt Everest yesterday. The 55-year-old Queenstown musterer stood on...
The Anglican Bishop of Dunedin has announced his intention to retire at Easter next year, and raised questions about whether the Dunedin diocese should replace him.
Abbotsford School is expecting to post its highest roll on record later this year, and principal Stephanie Madden is crediting the nearby railway underpass for the surge.
Some of the ideas planted during stage one of consultation on two new reserves in Mosgiel, have been weeded out in stage two of the consultation process.
Two Dunedin women hope to rub shoulders with high-profile female leaders such as Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and singer Annie Lennox during a conference in Copenhagen next week.
The unexpected resignation of St Clair School principal Richard Newton has shocked his board of trustees, staff and pupils.
For star-gazers, the remote and icy elbow of northern Norway in the Arctic Circle is one of the best places to go during winter. But for self-confessed "space geek and star-gazer'' Lola...
A Russian businesswoman believes she is being forced out of her leased premises in the Dunedin Railway Station by the Dunedin City Council to make way for a new family restaurant chain.
Six months after breaking his neck in a mountain-biking accident, Nick Cornish is back doing what he does best - music.
