John Lewis

Here's some food for thought - if you drop your sandwich on the floor, is it still safe to pick up and eat after five seconds?

Government plans for alcohol reform, to be released today, are likely to be weak and "like treating cancer with a couple of aspirin", medical experts say.

The tide is turning in Rotary clubs across the country, New Zealand's first female district governor says.

Staff at the Regent Theatre, in Dunedin, have been left baffled after someone broke into the building and went on a trail of minor but senseless vandalism.

The Octagon skyline is undergoing a subtle change as construction begins on an extension to Dunedin's Regent Theatre stage house.

Two Otago writers won prestigious awards at the 2010 Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children's Book Awards in Wellington last night.

Helping to rebuild a country gripped by civil war for the past 30 years was never going to be easy.

The Government's proposed public-private partnerships in schools will "merely entrench inequality and disadvantage" schools, a senior lecturer at the University of Otago College of Education says.

The Otago Primary Principals' Association has supported its Canterbury counterpart, which has asked boards of trustees in the region to hold off on reporting national standards until fundamental flaws are acknowledged and a sector-driven fix is in place.

They got wet, they got muddy and some even got lost.

A geography trip to Taiwan has paid off in silver and bronze for two 17-year-old John McGlashan College pupils.

Seldom is there an event where people stand relatively stationary in a room filled with dance music, flashing lights and whirring electric motors. But these action-packed sights and sounds are not unusual for the RoboCup Junior Otago Challenge.

A 17-year-old Bayfield High School pupil was killed instantly and three others were seriously injured following a car crash involving a drunk driver in the school's car park yesterday - a harrowing experience for all those watching the mock exercise.

University of Otago School of Business students could soon be sharing lectures with counterparts at one of Russia's most prestigious and oldest universities.

Kaikorai Valley College has won a national award at the 19th International Education Conference in Christchurch, for its marketing skills which attract about 60 international pupils each year to study in Dunedin.

The Government has adopted a "wait-and-see" approach to the future of the South Island's neurosurgical services, rather than interfere before an expert panel has reached its decision, Prime Minister John Key says.