A Dunedin secondary school has become the first in Otago to approve a new "cyber citizen agreement", which could see pupils stood down or suspended if they misused the school's computer equipment.
It seems Otago Girls' High School has the luck of the Irish after again winning an award at the 2012 Rodney Walshe Ireland Essay Competition.
Around the world in 60 minutes - beat that Phileas Fogg.
As many as one in 20 Dunedin house sales are falling through at the last hurdle because insurance companies are declining to insure houses built before 1935.
If life as a sculptor is supposed to be more difficult after one of your hands has been cut off, no-one told Gavin Wilson. The 43-year-old had his right hand severed in an industrial accident in...
Two "foolish" Taieri teenagers sparked a major police search and rescue operation yesterday when they set off down the Taieri River in a cheap inflatable dinghy without wetsuits or life jackets.
The sight of sexually explicit words and genitalia drawn in bright orange paint on Mosgiel property is angering residents so much that Mosgiel police fear for the safety of the culprits.
A Civil Aviation Authority notice ordering the skydiving industry to drug test staff in a bid to weed out "cowboys" has been welcomed by Otago operators.
Parliament's decision to keep the age at which alcohol can be bought at 18 has been described by the University of Otago's head of preventive and social medicine as a lost opportunity and "profoundly disappointing".
Concern is growing among Otago principals over the increasing amount of truant pupils requiring Ministry of Education assistance to be returned to some form of meaningful education.
Many adults are terrible role models for children when it comes to using the internet, an online technologies safety adviser says.
Have you ever wondered what ants taste like?
The Novopay Governance Board has moved a step closer to addressing the issues affecting the education sector's new payroll system following an "urgent" meeting in Wellington yesterday.
Otago pilots are "startled" by changes to the Civil Aviation Authority fees structure which will result in some fees rising by more than 300% over the next three years.
Writing his name on a dusty Corstorphine School blackboard was Clark Bragg's introduction to his first class of pupils and an education career spanning nearly half a century.
Learning English was never about winning a personal challenge - it was about survival for Japanese writer, translator and freelance film co-ordinator Izumi Uchida.
Dunedin's Community Learning Centre may yet remain open as families of intellectually disabled pupils begin investigating alternative funding sources.
Otago primary school principals, in a letter to Education Minister Hekia Parata, have vented their frustration at major flaws in the new Novopay payroll system.
Two of Otago's pioneering ships will appear on postage stamps next month, to pay tribute to the significant role they played in shaping New Zealand.
A certain anxiety washed over me when it suddenly dawned on me there may be some complications involved in interviewing comedian Sam Wills.
