Rotary Park School is on the brink of collapse, with the entire teaching staff threatening to leave and parents planning to remove their children from the school before the start of classes on Monday morning.
New Zealand - no country for old men (or women)?Increasing pressures on the healthcare system, including the effects on older people, were discussed yesterday during day one of the New Zealand Bioethics Conference in Dunedin.
Green MP and New Zealand Drug Foundation ambassador Metiria Turei said alcohol was a drug like any other, and it was worth taking a break from drinking to think about how it was being used.
On what is traditionally the most discounted day of the shopping calendar, Otago consumers surged past the tills, creating the highest year-on-year growth in Boxing Day spending in New Zealand.
A necklace of islands mooted for the upper harbour, using 7.2 million cubic metres of spoil dredged from lower Otago Harbour, is gaining traction.
Nearly 30 teachers have received criminal convictions in Otago during the past eight years, ranging from drugs and alcohol offences to violence and pornography offending.
Otago roads remained uneventful yesterday as the exodus of holidaymakers began.
The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be one of the busiest on record for Dunedin camping grounds.
An 80-year-old man has been brought to tears by the theft of porcelain angels from the graves of his three daughters at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
When it comes time to take a holiday from his work as a search and rescue helicopter pilot for the Austrian Government, Jurgen Albrecht prefers to do it on wheels rather than rotor blades.
Despite concerns about heavy rain and rising river levels in the Otago region on Friday night, there was only minor surface flooding and no damage done to property at the weekend.
A Dunedin family had to pack a bag and leave their house on Saturday night after a party across the street descended into chaos, police say.
The flat housing market which has gripped much of the country for the past two years has taken its toll on real estate companies in the southern region.
Leaving a life based in a classroom after 35 years as a teacher won't be easy.
The nervous wait is over for more than 6350 NCEA and 439 New Zealand Scholarship candidates in the Otago region, now that examination results have been posted online.
Education staff selection has truly entered the digital age.
An Auckland conservation architect is in Port Chalmers this week, drawing up plans to make sure the historic Iona Church does not end up in the same state as many of its counterparts in Christchurch after a natural disaster.
On holiday, most tourists snap photos, collect souvenirs or send postcards. But not German tourist Oliver Wild. He collects tattoos.
It will be a new year and a new era for Bathgate Park School, but some are predicting it will be plagued by the same old problems.
The Ministry of Education has again intervened in the operations of Rotary Park School, this time by appointing a commissioner to govern the troubled school.
