Otago Girls' High School pupils got a bit mixed up yesterday. Instead of eating their sandwiches, they spent their lunch break seeing if they had the skills to become a DJ.
His rig failing and ribs cracked, a former Dunedin sailor limped back to the United States earlier this year after an aborted attempt to circumnavigate the globe solo non-stop. This month, Stanley Paris hopes to set sail again and make history, John Lewis reports.
It's the ultimate career dream - turning your childhood passion into a paid living. John Lewis talks to Weta Workshop supervisor Rob Gillies about what it's like creating cool props and special effects for Hollywood movies.
A 20-year-old Dunedin man was enraged after being injured in a hit-and-run incident on George St yesterday, but on reflection acknowledged the incident might well have been his own fault.
Dunedin secondary schools have scooped all the major categories at the 2014 New Zealand Historical Association Awards.
A vehicle theft in Teviot St, Dunedin, has police scratching their heads.
In a fish tank upstairs at the Otago Museum yesterday, there was a reminder that sometimes it takes one giant to replace another.
High-flying computer executives at an IBM conference in Las Vegas this week have been left drop-jawed at Dunedin's potential to become a gigabit city.
Those hoping to attend the Otago Medical Research Foundation's 2015 annual dinner are out of luck.
New Zealand's aged-care industry could be crippled by yesterday's Court of Appeal decision which paves the way for genuine pay equity for women, a Mosgiel rest-home chief executive says.
Adam Scammell still can't quite believe he is a published poet, with his work featuring in the same book as such well-known writers as James K. Baxter, Joy Cowley, Sam Hunt and Margaret Mahy.
Have you ever heard of a hash brown jamwich?It is two slices of toast, slathered in raspberry jam, stuck together with a hash brown in between.
Traditionally, homework has been the only thing schools have given pupils to take home.
What started as a science experiment could become a lucrative manufacturing business for Karl Brinsdon.
A search is under way for a particularly imposing and creepy phantom in South Dunedin and it could last for up to four days.
An attempt to beat New Zealand Olympians Mahe Drysdale and Emma Twigg in a rowing race yesterday left about a dozen Logan Park High School pupils gasping for air and flapping blistered hands.
Taieri Gorge Railways will roll down a new track this weekend, by rebranding as Dunedin Railways.
Otago Girls' High School has become New Zealand's first all-girls state secondary school to win a National School of Character award.
It's been called the Toaster and the Glasshouse.
Outram was a sight for sore eyes for Luke O'Malley, when he cycled into the township last week.
