Step aside, Rainbow Loom and other schoolyard crazes - a new one may be about to tie up children's imagination and attention.
Who said school rules can't be changed?
One look said it all. Ala Ghandour never expected to look so horrific.
More than 110 delegates from the printing industry across the South Pacific converged on Dunedin yesterday for the annual Single Width Users Group New Zealand (Swug) conference.
What better way to celebrate the end of winter than trudging around in mud up to your armpits.
The state of low-income private rental housing in Dunedin continues to decline at an alarming rate, Presbyterian Support Otago has revealed.
Southern breweries are fizzing after again gaining several awards in the 2014 Brewers' Guild of New Zealand Beer Awards.
Ben Lovelock and William McLauchlan are popular at home when it is time to put the dishes away.
Green Island Fireside Club members (from left) Elaine Wishart (81), Peter Randall (89), Bev Tetlow (66), Doris Kinraid (84), Faith Gray, Isabel Campbell (82), Daph White (68), June Anderson (84) and conductor Kelvin Tetlow (67) perform the National Anthem at the start of their concert in the Janet Cameron Hall in Green Island on Saturday.
Forsyth Barr Stadium was full of high-fliers on Saturday night - and not the kind you'd expect to find in the corporate boxes.
King's High School principal Dan Reddiex has learned the hard way that he is no longer one of the boys.
Great minds designed Forsyth Barr Stadium to keep out snow and other unpleasant weather.
This weekend nearly 30 years ago Holly Mathieson was a nervous wreck.
University of Otago researchers have found new ways to detect changes occurring on the surface of the bowel, which may lead to better treatment for hundreds of children with Crohn's disease and colitis.
New Zealand state girls' schools are looking more to community organisations to support their pupils' education, a national conference in Dunedin has shown.
Green Island School principal Steve Hayward reckons there is something in the water in Green Island.
An Otago Girls' High School pupil has reached the national final of the Alliance Francaise Concours Oral with a chance of winning a trip to New Caledonia.
Three Dunedin politicians gave voters food for thought during an election forum at Council of Social Services Dunedin last night.
In a day fraught with political controversy, Prime Minister John Key appeared to be at relative ease during yesterday's 2014 Otago Daily Times Class Act awards, basking in the glow of Otago's top secondary school achievers.
One of the great Kiwi battlers is planning to have another go at becoming the oldest man to circumnavigate the globe solo on a yacht.