A few seeds were sown in the minds of potential civil rights leaders yesterday, when women's rights and slavery expert Dr Marion Roydhouse told Otago Girls' High School year 10 pupils about ways of fighting for equality.
Flights have resumed at Dunedin International Airport after a bird strike and bad weather combined to halt operations this morning.
Rather than stem the brain drain of Kiwis going offshore to further their careers, one of Dunedin's greatest exports is recommending students embrace it.
A community consultation meeting to discuss the future of Rotary Park School will be held tomorrow night.
Increasing numbers of primary and intermediate-aged children are being stood down or excluded from Otago schools, Ministry of Education data has revealed.
A group of dumpster divers has recycled about 100kg of butter found in a skip outside a Dunedin supermarket this week.
A letter has been sent to the Education Minister by Rotary Park School commissioner Cleave Hay, asking for a decision on the school's future.
Alarm bells rang yesterday when it appeared a wayward tourist was driving a campervan along the railway line between Port Chalmers and Dunedin.
It may be her first principalship, but the way Bayfield High School's new principal talks about her goals for the school, one could not be blamed for thinking she has done it all before.
What started as a modest railway journey for enthusiasts and visitors, running a few times a week during the summer, has grown into a thriving and popular tourist attraction which will mark its 25th anniversary this month.
Moments after completing a four-minute aerobics routine, Fred Millar gathers his breath and says: "There's nothing we won't do - as long as we can get back up afterwards".
Dunedin's mayoral car park has undergone a subtle refurbishment this week.
The Octagon is once again occupied by people in tents - this time scouts.
The southern Great South Basin is included as one of 25 offshore and onshore oil and gas blocks being put out to tender for exploration, under five-year permits.
New Zealand primary schools still lag behind their Australian counterparts when it comes to being sun smart, and it may be influencing the lifetime risk of melanoma in future generations, University of Otago research shows.
He has completed the world championship ironman triathlon in Hawaii and has swum the English Channel twice.
Blue is the glue which will help hold Dunedin's Carisbrook School together.
Masters athletes are not the only ones getting a good work-out this week.
At the start of the second week of the school year, Rotary Park School's roll has dropped to 22 pupils, prompting commissioner Cleave Hay to investigate the school's viability.
Kaikorai Valley College's longest-serving principal says he will have no trouble filling in his days when he retires at the end of the first term.