John Lewis

"It's damaged a lot of people and it's going to go on for a lot longer yet.

Education Minister Anne Tolley is adamant there will be no moratorium on implementation of the National Standards while a newly formed advisory group discusses perceived flaws in the initiative.

Minister of Education Anne Tolley has announced she will establish a National Standards advisory group.

Scrapping with each other is not traditionally a productive way to raise funds for a team.

After spending much of his working life in "the big smoke", Mark Jurisich has taken up the management of the Royal Albatross Centre at Taiaroa Head, in a bid to live "the quieter life".

The growing popularity of the Otago Maori and Pacific Island Festival in Dunedin has prompted organisers to expand the two-day event next year.

KiwiRail's decision to increase the short-list of prospective tenderers for a $500 million contract to build Auckland's electric trains, has surprised and disconcerted members of a working group hoping to win some of the construction work for Dunedin's Hillside Engineering workshops.

Three Otago secondary-school pupils will be singing the praises of the region while touring Europe, China and the United States.

John McGlashan College in Dunedin is poised to send its year-9 pupils into an era of high-tech paper-less education.

Zadok the Priest was there.

Closure of Dunedin's second-oldest school is to be considered by its board of trustees and the surrounding community.

Construction workers at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium spent much of yesterday retrieving dozens of sheets of iron from the Leith Stream after they were blown off the south stand in gale force winds on Sunday.

"Doing the simple things in life, like going to the bank or the store, were very difficult for me. I was even scared to answer the phone."

John Foster is one of the lucky ones.

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