John Lewis

As the bagpipes played Going Home, the ashes of Norman MacLeod were scattered across a long-lasting monument he built with his own hands.

The Royal Albatross Centre at Taiaroa Head is to close to the public for two months during the winter while the facility is refurbished.

China is now home to about 1.3 billion people, and only a fraction of them have ever heard a brass band.

Questions have been raised about a claim by Sotheby's Auction House in London that it is about to auction what is believed to be the first golf clubs made in New Zealand.

Education Minister Hekia Parata's claim that teachers and principals are the only people who can raise achievement levels in New Zealand schools, is a "thinly disguised veil" of her intent to introduce performance pay for teachers, a senior lecturer at the University of Otago College of Education says.

She's thin, 2.3m tall, fiery and quick to fly off the mark.

A former Kavanagh College pupil was among the country's top 40 pupils who received awards at the 2011 New Zealand Qualifications Authority Top Scholarship Awards ceremony at Government House in Wellington yesterday.

Almost a decade after being struck down and severely injured by a vehicle in North Dunedin while walking home, Drew McLean is planning to run the New York Marathon.

A 74-year-old man was assaulted and knocked unconscious in a "disgusting" case of road rage in Dunedin.

Nearly one in 10 Otago school pupils are estimated to be absent from school each week, a 2011 Ministry of Education survey reveals.

KiwiRail is seeking expressions of interest for the sale of Dunedin's Hillside Workshops.

Despite KiwiRail seeking expressions of interest for the sale of Dunedin's Hillside Engineering, the city's business community and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union are confident Hillside can survive.

For some people, living in rural areas of New Zealand means being less connected to civilisation and the information superhighway.

As visitors at the Leith Valley Touring Park rise to the sound of birds singing and the burbling Water of Leith, few would even notice the faint grinding sound of glass bottles being crushed and ground into sand.

Four artists from Otago secondary schools will have their artwork displayed around the South Island and lower North Island as part of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority's annual Top Art touring exhibition.

Dunedin South MP Clare Curran has questioned the Ministry of Education's commitment to redeveloping Carisbrook School into a facility fit for 21st-century education, as the school continues to wait for building plans to be approved.