Up to 29 Dunedin churches will be analysed by international seismologists and engineers as part of a nationwide research project aimed at gauging their seismic fitness in the event of an earthquake.
It was piping hot in the Octagon yesterday for the Otago Southland Provincial Pipe Band Contest, with blue sky and sunshine as far as the eye could see.
Three teachers were convicted in Otago on drug and alcohol charges in 2013 but have managed to keep their teacher registration, information from the New Zealand Teachers Council has revealed.
It has been more than three decades since Kaikorai Valley College deputy principal Garry Chronican was at university.
The boys at 108 Dundas St have gone nuts - or should that be legumes?
When a group of Taieri College pupils asked if they could go on a school trip to Africa next year, the staff said, ''yeah sure - but you have to organise it yourselves''.
Each time Iain McKay visits Dunedin, he manages to pack a suitcase full of Crunchie bars and a treasure trove of family history before he returns to the United States.
St Clair School is nearing the end of its $1.8 million five-year redevelopment programme, with the start of stage two.
A community overwhelmed with grief did well not to let it overflow. The funeral for Bradley (9) and Ellen (6) Livingstone at St Leonards School today was more akin to a festival of celebration...
Warning signs are being put up around swimming holes on the Taieri River near Waipiata, as the Otago Regional Council investigates the cause of continued high levels of the bacteria E. coli.
Oil Free Otago has established a ''rapid response'' team of up to 260 people to take to the waters around Otago to hinder Anadarko Petroleum Corporation's deep-sea drilling operations.
Otago schools appear to be getting better at recognising potential education-harming issues and getting help before they require intervention by the Ministry of Education.
Don't let the Japanese fan fool you. Kyohei Takehisa is becoming a real fan of rodeo.
Government plans to raise graduating teachers to master's degree level have concerned an education specialist, who says it could bar fantastic would-be teachers from the profession.
It's not often you find yourself surrounded by gangsters dressed in expensive pinstripe suits and femmes fatale with a glass of wine in one hand, and a revolver in the other.
Another secondary school has been opened in Mosgiel after the Ministry of Education granted provisional registration for the Amana Christian School to expand its education programme.
The proposal to build a $60 million Chinese school in Dunedin has the potential to divert Asian international fee-paying pupils away from state secondary schools in Dunedin, which some principals believe could have a significant impact on the city's schools.
Meet the stars of the team. Their sole aim tomorrow is to buck, bounce, run, chase and maybe even mash up a few cowboys at the Outram Rodeo.
Hundreds of people from the Taieri can credit their love and appreciation of art to Beverley Kay.
Honestly, you have no idea how hard it is to find a swish dress for a birthday party.
