The risk of George Street Normal School bursting at the seams has prompted the Ministry of Education to implement an enrolment scheme at for the first time in the school's 130-year history.
While a dusty cloud lingers over Christchurch, French pupils on a school exchange to Christchurch Girls' High School have found a silver lining.
"The flavour - there's no oyster in the world that tastes like a Bluff oyster. The cold water of Foveaux Strait - it creates something magic."
A BK117 helicopter hovering above the Regent Theatre had heads craning skyward yesterday as Helicopters Otago pilot David Gale placed large extractor fans on the roof of the redeveloped building.
Chef and television presenter Al Brown is going to talk fresh with anyone who will chat to him at the Otago Farmers Market in Dunedin on Saturday as he films another episode of his latest show Get Fresh.
Willow Gee is only 5, but in the past six months she has been enrolled in three schools.
Nearly 850 Christchurch school pupils have flooded into Otago schools following last week's quake, and the number is predicted to climb.
Helping Christchurch residents get back on their feet after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake last week has highlighted how unprepared for a natural disaster many New Zealanders are, Ravensbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer Ross Bryant says.
While the loss of life and heritage in Christchurch is nothing short of tragic, New York City Planning Department urban designer Skye Duncan says the loss of so many buildings in the CBD is a rare opportunity for the city to reinvent itself.
Dunedin police have disclosed what might be evidence relating to a vicious assault in Moray Pl late last month, in the hope someone can identify the offenders.
At a time when many Dunedin fire stations have staff volunteering in Christchurch earthquake operations, seven fires in eight hours in the student quarter stretched the city's firefighting resources to the limit at the weekend.
"I've lost everything I had left in life. I feel like a pauper. All I've got is my walking frame and the clothes I was wearing at the time."
More than 50 school pupils have already enrolled in Otago schools after fleeing the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch last Tuesday, and some principals believe enrolment numbers could skyrocket in the week ahead.
A change in roll caps allowing more pupils to attend two integrated secondary schools in Dunedin has left some state schools concerned about a drift of pupils away from their classrooms.
The foundations are set, and construction has begun on Dunedin's new $3.5 million Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Green Island.
Clinical psychologist and host of television's The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show Nigel Latta is warning parents to censor their children's viewing of the Christchurch earthquake media coverage.
Many Dunedin primary school pupils will don red and black clothing today in a mufti-day to raise money for Christchurch earthquake victims.
A 102-year-old woman is among 16 elderly people transferred to Dunedin from a Christchurch retirement home last night after it partially collapsed during the earthquake on Tuesday.
South Dunedin's schools are one step closer to knowing their fate, with Education Minister Anne Tolley presenting a revised list of options for a second round of consultation on their future.
Otago secondary school teachers will join their counterparts around the country in stopwork meetings with the Post Primary Teachers Association during the next three days to discuss future industrial action.
