John Lewis

Dunedin residents have long suspected there is something special about the city's Botanic Garden camellia collection.

The Octagon will become a "temporary graveyard" this weekend to celebrate the 50th birthday of Amnesty International.

The Ferntree Lodge property, confiscated from convicted fraudster Michael Swann, has been sold.

A Mosgiel principal hopes to open important career "windows" for her pupils later this month when she visits China as part of a New Zealand secondary school leaders' delegation.

They travelled 150m down one of the most visited streets in New Zealand, but Cadbury's Giant Jaffas are "yummy" and it was difficult to stop children from collecting them out of the gutters and eating them following the Cadbury Jaffa Race on Baldwin St yesterday.

Armed police swooped on five Dunedin gang homes yesterday, as part of ongoing investigations into two recent armed robberies in the city.

A sea lion hiding in the bushes near the Otago University Rowing Club has been alarming walkers and cyclists, prompting the Department of Conservation to warn Dunedin residents of the large number of sea lions in the harbour.

House buyers looking for a bargain home development project could be in luck.

"Tedious" doesn't even begin to describe what it is like to peel tiny numbered stickers off a backing sheet and then stick them individually, by hand, on to 50,000 Cadbury Giant Jaffas.

Humpty, Big Ted, Little Ted, Manu, Jemima, Phil Keoghan, Danny Watson and Ian Taylor are just some of the television personalities who have had their lives illuminated on screen by the Pollux.

Male teachers are not essential if research involving Otago school pupils is anything to go by.

A computer program developed by two Otago Polytechnic students as part of their degree has been found to have real-world applications and has been picked up for use by the Dunedin City Council.

A concern for the future of science education in New Zealand primary schools has prompted the University of Otago's education and applied sciences departments to team up and create teaching tools aimed at building "a lexicon" of science knowledge.

Penelope Couper, Imogen Davis and Dannielle Hall plan to make their one act play a wonder.

Just days after the Ministry of Education's announcement that Forbury School will close, serious interest is already being shown in its purchase.