A shake-up of school bus services in the greater Waikouaiti coastal area has left some parents and Dunedin principals feeling they are being discriminated against by the Ministry of Education.
Dunedin secondary school pupils will be able to debate until they are blue in the face with the establishment of a new debating organisation in the city.
A wave of success swept through the stadium and riding on top of it, with an arm waving in the air, was Macklemore singing: ''I wear your granddad's clothes, I look incredible, I'm in this big ass coat, From that thrift shop down the road''.
A ''depressing lack'' of health prevention strategies in New Zealand schools is causing irreparable damage to children's bodies, which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars in the years to come, a musculoskeletal specialist says.
Moose hunter Ken Tustin is about to deploy updated technology in his bid to capture evidence of the fabled Fiordland moose, despite growing feelings the search may be in vain.
Pipe bands in Otago and Southland have avoided ending their long run of contests in the Octagon on a sour note, by consulting businesses in the CBD and gaining overwhelming support for the competition to continue.
A Dunedin theologian believes the system of government in New Zealand is ill-equipped to deal with reports such as the Salvation Army's recently released 2013 state of the nation report, which tend to get swept under the rug.
Achieving top marks in New Zealand scholarship examinations has put three former Dunedin secondary school pupils in a league with the best and brightest in the country.
A small group of men is again lathering up for this year's Vision Topless Car Wash to raise funds for the Otago Cancer Society, but there appears to be a drought of men in Dunedin willing to take their shirts off to help.
A manufacturing delay means the long-awaited return of blazers to the Kaikorai Valley College uniform has been prolonged.
Otago principals are on edge after documents show the Treasury has indicated a preference for bulk funding in New Zealand schools.
Despite the Government agreeing to inject $5 million into fixing Novopay, Otago principals say the fact remains that 98% of schools in New Zealand have little or no confidence in the beleaguered payroll system.
Postal deliveries may be delayed to parts of Otago and Southland during the next six weeks, as Dunedin International Airport is temporarily closed in the evenings to upgrade the runway.
Two residents of outback Australia got a shock as they turned in to Dunedin's Bath St on Saturday.
The occupants of a utility vehicle which was crushed ''as flat as a pancake'' after it plunged about 50m down a steep face near Lee Stream are lucky to be alive, Dunedin police say.
After more than 30 years of producing Scouting Otago's Gang Shows, Noel and Sue Walker say they are just as enthusiastic about this year's show as they were their first.
There was a point when Andrew Logie and Ed Davies thought, ''This is just ridiculous - why are we doing this?''
The Otago Primary Principals' Association says the Government is to blame for an Education Review Office report which criticises many primary schools around the country for not being flexible enough in the provision of their maths curriculum.
Four tourists who broke into the city's storm-water network on Thursday night could have been killed by a dangerous build-up of hydrogen sulphide gas, and the Dunedin City Council has publicly chastised them for their ''extreme foolishness''.
Gregory Cook has won many awards for medical research during the past two decades, but says the one he received this week at the Otago School of Medical Sciences annual awards ceremony takes the cake.