John Lewis

In the distance, Natasha O'Brien could hear her miniature Jack Russell barking.

When Jenny McDonald came to the Taieri 45 years ago as part of a ''wee look'' around New Zealand, the last thing she expected to do was get married and still be there today.

Waitati School hopes to capitalise on the 2000 annual sunshine hours that gleam down on Otago each year by installing solar panels to generate its own electricity.

East Taieri School is looking even lusher and greener than usual after being given $1000 of native trees to plant on school grounds.

A Logan Park High School pupil will not travel to Jerusalem for the World Science Conference this month after its organisers advised it is too dangerous to attend.

Silverstream School pupils are on their marks and set to go for the Taieri school sports cross-country event next week.

Jacobi Kohu-Morris is not even old enough to vote yet, but that is not stopping the 17-year-old from having his say about the state of politics in New Zealand in front of some pretty high-profile politicians. John Lewis reports.

While the number of pupils being stood down, suspended or excluded from Otago schools has reached some of the lowest levels in more than a decade, concerns have been raised about the increasing number of younger pupils displaying violent behaviour in the classroom.

If Queen's High School new principal, Di Carter, has plans for the South Dunedin secondary school, she is not revealing them just yet.

Arthur Street School's version of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony may have been created on a shoestring budget compared with the official ceremony in Glasgow today, but childhood imagination and enthusiasm well and truly made up for it.

Mathew Denys' trip of a lifetime to the World Science Conference in Jerusalem next month is in limbo as conflict rages in Gaza.

A cold is different from influenza. The flu usually develops more quickly. You will have fever and muscle aches within a few hours and will generally feel sicker than with a cold. John Lewis and Eileen Goodwin report.

Otago Girls' High School has established a permanent house system aimed at building on the school's camaraderie and competitive spirit.

Some people tend to get a bit twitchy when it comes to choosing their own funeral casket, especially when they are still alive.

When Anne Limburg founded the Dunedin Harmony Chorus of Sweet Adelines 25 years ago, she never dreamt it would be so successful.

For more than 40 years, David Feather and Max Larkins have been making sure important mail such as birthday cards, letters from home, medical appointments and, of course, the bills, reaches your post box each morning.

The Ministry of Education has called for tenders to develop the Otago Girls' High School music department to the tune of nearly $2 million.

If a goat is tethered with a 4.5m-long rope to the corner of a shed which is 2m long and 2m wide, what is the maximum area the goat can graze?