The growing prevalence of the choking game in New Zealand schools has prompted the Ministry of Education to circulate a warning to parents and caregivers to be vigilant about the safety of their children during the summer holidays.
The Dunedin Kindergarten Association is putting building projects on hold, as government funding to the organisation is expected to drop by $1.2 million next year.
"I'm going to eat some cake, and then I'm going to the library."
Mathematical probability suggests if you do not at first succeed, your chances of success are greater the second time.
English may be Yin Lin's second language, but it hasn't stopped the Columba College pupil from achieving success in her fourth national writing competition this year.
While many people were enjoying a day in the sun at the beach yesterday, a New Zealand fur seal decided to head to a rather unlikely spot - the middle of Dunedin's Portsmouth Dr.
"It's not easy, but we just find a way to deal with life without him."
Dedication, vision and precision have won three builders in the Southern region awards at the Registered Master Builders 2010 Awards.
The days of reading books from the public library may be numbered, with the advent of digital technology.
"It's terrible. We don't even have hair and make-up."
The usual process for deciding who oversees school mergers has been set aside and Education Minister Anne Tolley will allow South Dunedin schools to have a say in how a potential merger will proceed.
A parent of five former College Street School pupils has accused the school's principal of railroading parents into supporting the merger of their school, rather than providing "a democratic process of collaborative consultation".
Counting worms and pulling weeds at Kaikorai Valley College has helped the New Zealand International Science Festival and the Department of Conservation reach the final of the prestigious 2010 Stockholm Challenge Awards.
The overwhelming view of the Calton Hill School community is their school should remain untouched by potential mergers in the South Dunedin school review.
It's not often you get to be silly in public. But yesterday, hundreds of people across Otago wore red noses for a serious cause: Cure Kids.
Finding better ways to curb unruly behaviour on school grounds will be the topic of a study by Tahuna Intermediate principal Tony Hunter after he won an Otago Primary Principals' Association study award.
Consultation on the restructuring of six South Dunedin schools has begun and further schools in Dunedin and Otago could be in line for more of the same, Education Minister Anne Tolley said yesterday.
American pilot Alex Marshall was airlifted to Queenstown Lakes Hospital yesterday with a broken ankle after the glider he was flying landed heavily, 35km west of Omarama.
Otago Harbour was plugged at crucial points yesterday as part of a Maritime New Zealand training exercise aimed at stopping the spread of a simulated oil spill.
It seems not everyone welcomes the South Dunedin schools review.
