In the digital age, where you can literally "plug in and play" almost anything, the Dunedin Camera Club decided to go back to basics for its 50th anniversary celebration and have a good old-fashioned slide show.
Heavy rain and a blocked drain caused severe surface flooding in Centennial Ave, in the Dunedin suburb of Helensburgh last night.
The time has come for the New Zealand Teachers' Council to be cut free of its ties to the Minister of Education and get broader powers, a University of Otago senior education lecturer believes.
Although international fee-paying pupil numbers remain relatively stable in Otago schools, numbers in Southland are skyrocketing.
A teenage texter escaped through his car's sunroof yesterday after the vehicle left the road and became wedged between a tree and a concrete embankment.
There was plenty of ringing at Kaikorai School yesterday, and it wasn't from the school bell.
Officially speaking, turning New Zealand into a republic is not up for discussion by the Constitutional Advisory Panel, but panel co-chairman Sir Tipene O'Regan has not discounted the issue.
Anyone can cut hair, but few can create works of art like Ashley Sutherland Todd and Judi Wong.
By the time the Carisbrook School board of trustees has spent every last cent of the $5.6 million it has received to redevelop the former Caversham School site, few people will recognise it, principal Ben Sincock says.
Sexual harassment, sexual misconduct and the use of weapons appear to be on the rise in Otago schools, Ministry of Education figures released this week show.
Paul Gough could not get the time off work, not to mention accreditation to compete, but it has not stopped the Dunedin cyclist from taking part in the Tour de France.
St Mary's school in Mosgiel is moving, the Dunedin Catholic Diocese has confirmed.
Otago schools appear to have a good grasp on dealing with pupils with severe behaviour, the latest Ministry of Education school disciplinary figures show.
A Supplementary review of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti by the Education Review Office has found significant improvement in the Maori immersion school.
Dunedin police are seeking witnesses to an altercation behind an inner-city restaurant in which a 20-year-old man was allegedly run over by a car.
The Octagon sounded a little like Hell's kitchen on Saturday afternoon as protesters smashed dinner plates and yelled their discontent at the Government's plan to part-privatise state-owned assets.
Pupils at Kaikorai Valley College are looking forward to the look of times past.
Bruce Callister says what goes around, comes around.
Either the cowboys and cowgirls were not getting the job done and needed some help, or some children just felt better about dressing as witches, Harry Potter or Indiana Jones.
An increase in police numbers at peak times in the Dunedin CBD is beginning to pay dividends, Dunedin police community relations co-ordinator Sergeant Matt Scoles says.
