The number of international fee-paying pupils enrolling in Otago secondary schools has plummeted 42% in the past decade, prompting some principals to warn the drop may cause a financial deficit for some schools if the trend continues.
A 75-year-old man may have been lying dead in his South Dunedin house for weeks before his body was discovered yesterday, Dunedin police say.
The neighbours of a man who lay dead in his South Dunedin home for more than six weeks say he was ''reclusive'' and would sometimes not answer his door or phone calls.
The 54-year-old man saved from his burning Mornington flat on Monday night may have been rescued twice, by different people.
Problems with the Novopay Ministerial Inquiry's email system have been labelled a joke by Otago principals, after an email to schools had to be resent.
The number of Otago secondary schools meeting the national average pass rates for NCEA level 3 qualifications appears to be improving, New Zealand Qualifications Authority statistics show.
Anxiety. It's that sensation you get when your mate drives a car down a gravel road at 140kmh and flies over the brow of a hill, where you are suddenly confronted with a sharp left-hand turn - and he doesn't seem to be slowing down.
Some envy erupted between Carole Evans and husband George this week when Mrs Evans won the Drivesouth Rally Fest rally car ride with former World Rally Champion Miki Biasion.
Minis might be small, but when there are about 50 of them in Dunedin's Octagon - some with locomotive horns bolted to the roof - they make a big noise.
Putting the world to rights will be the aim of four Otago secondary school pupils later this month when they attend the Sir Peter Blake Youth EnviroLeaders Forum in Christchurch.
Columba College has made significant changes to its outdoor education policies in the wake of an incident last month in which 18 pupils narrowly avoided drowning when they were caught in a dangerous rip near Purakaunui.
A secondary boarding school for senior Muslim boys in South Dunedin is now a certainty.
Forget golf, rugby, tennis or car racing. It seems the family game of Scrabble is where all the best prizes are.
The creator of a new Perspex shark cage has been left feeling a little jittery following the first of several sea trials to be carried out near Stewart Island this week.
Milk may be flowing into Otago and Southland primary schools as early as next month as Fonterra takes the next step in its nationwide introduction of Milk for Schools programme.
A photograph of a sun-loving Labrador bounding down a beach in the Catlins has fetched Emma Cunningham one of the top awards in the New Zealand Walking Access Commission's Top Outdoor Spot competition.
Dunedin businesses appear to be up with the play when it comes to Holidays Act surcharges over Easter.
The weather this weekend is expected, for the most part, to be as bright and shiny as an Easter egg, the MetService has forecast.
One of the world's leading sopranos was all smiles yesterday as she viewed her likeness in a stained-glass window at St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
The publisher of New Zealand's School Journal has allayed fears the educational reading tool will be discontinued.
