Thirty-three Otago and Southland primary schools will be among more than 300 nationwide which will defy the Government's National Standards policy tomorrow in what is expected to be the most visual rebellion so far.
When Helen Kent, Jessica Barton and Melanie Redding learnt this week they had won an international French writing competition, they could not help but proclaim "oh, la la".
Katya Curran is brushing up on her knowledge of climate change and poverty in the South Pacific, before her visit to Unicef New Zealand's first Youth Congress in Auckland next month.
The sight of dead and dying hens at the Scott Memorial above Port Chalmers is upsetting visitors and the Dunedin City Council has no idea of the cause.
For the second successive year, Dunedin's Mousikos Trio has been selected for the semifinal of the New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music contest.
They always say, a bad day on radio is still better than a good day in your previous job.
A makeshift patch, designed to get the 53,000 tonne Maersk Dabou container vessel back in service last month, won a Dunedin company the rights to make permanent repairs on the vessel at the weekend.
More than $40,000 worth of equipment was stolen from a Dunedin business at the weekend in one of the largest commercial burglaries in the city for many years, police say.
The Dunedin City Council has selected a preferred chief executive, but it may be a week before that person is officially named.
A University of Otago law professor believes Clayton Weatherston's controversial defence of provocation would have failed, whether the media had created debate about the defence or not.
A Dunedin trio hopes to go one step further this year and win the New Zealand chamber music competition after winning the Otago regional contest for the second year in a row.
The downward slide in Dunedin's school rolls during the past decade appears to have been reversed marginally, but one Dunedin principal believes there are still unviable schools with low rolls in the city, which Education Minister Anne Tolley should consider closing.
A man arrested after allegedly attempting to rob a St Kilda dairy on Monday night should be counting his blessings the owner did not have time to pull out his water gun from under the counter and dish out some of his own justice.
A 39-year-old Brockville man has been charged with assaulting a child after allegedly smacking his 6-year-old son on the backside at the weekend.
The Dunedin CIB has distributed fliers to about 90 Caversham households warning a possible arsonist or arsonists may be at work in the area, following another suspicious rubbish fire in College St at the weekend.
As the ground began to shake in Dunedin, Christ's College prefect Dan Sharples thought, "Oh no, not again."
Dunedin police are concerned for the wellbeing of an intellectually disabled man, who was seriously injured during an assault at Heff's Hotel in South Dunedin but does not appear to have sought medical attention.
Luke hates pipe bands. It's not usually an issue for a 12-year-old Clydesdale horse who spends most of his days working in the high country of Erewhon Station.
Pamela Stephenson-Connolly's Sex Life has created so much interest among Dunedin residents that her talk next week about her latest book has had to be moved to a larger venue.
Two Columba College pupils plan to beat the Chinese at their own game when they represent New Zealand at the International Chinese Bridge speech competition in China in October.
