John Lewis

He has completed the world championship ironman triathlon in Hawaii and has swum the English Channel twice.

Blue is the glue which will help hold Dunedin's Carisbrook School together.

Masters athletes are not the only ones getting a good work-out this week.

At the start of the second week of the school year, Rotary Park School's roll has dropped to 22 pupils, prompting commissioner Cleave Hay to investigate the school's viability.

Kaikorai Valley College's longest-serving principal says he will have no trouble filling in his days when he retires at the end of the first term.

The parents of a 10-year-old girl who was struck and critically injured by a car at a Dunedin pedestrian crossing just days before Christmas have called for more care on crossings, from both drivers and pedestrians.

Embattled Rotary Park School principal Carmel Casey has spoken for the first time about her disputes with parents and staff at the school during the past 12 months.

King's High School has reported its largest year 9 roll in more than a decade, and principal Dan Reddiex says it bodes well for the future of the school.

Thirty pupils were at Rotary Park School today, and school officials are hoping the number will increase with time.

A parent has come out in support of embattled Rotary Park School principal Carmel Casey, as a group of parents prepare to withdraw their children from the school today.

Arran Pene has been long gone from Dunedin, but the former Otago and All Black No 8's connection to the city remains as strong as ever.

Anne-Sophie Page had no inkling when she was counting whelks on the mud flats of Otago Harbour her scientific experiments would lead to the skies over the Antarctic.

Since 1961, they have provided a perch for some of Otago's brightest and best secondary pupils.

Rotary Park School is on the brink of collapse, with the entire teaching staff threatening to leave and parents planning to remove their children from the school before the start of classes on Monday morning.

New Zealand - no country for old men (or women)?Increasing pressures on the healthcare system, including the effects on older people, were discussed yesterday during day one of the New Zealand Bioethics Conference in Dunedin.

Green MP and New Zealand Drug Foundation ambassador Metiria Turei said alcohol was a drug like any other, and it was worth taking a break from drinking to think about how it was being used.

On what is traditionally the most discounted day of the shopping calendar, Otago consumers surged past the tills, creating the highest year-on-year growth in Boxing Day spending in New Zealand.

A necklace of islands mooted for the upper harbour, using 7.2 million cubic metres of spoil dredged from lower Otago Harbour, is gaining traction.

Nearly 30 teachers have received criminal convictions in Otago during the past eight years, ranging from drugs and alcohol offences to violence and pornography offending.