John Lewis

Southern schools can spend more than $27 million in an unexpected fillip that should plough new money into local business.

A car has hit a power pole near Duntroon, leaving the driver in a serious condition.

The Government is about to provide the biggest capital injection for school maintenance in 25 years, but there is just one problem: Otago principals may be concerned they may not have enough time...

It appears southerners can safely dust off their deck furniture.

A report published in the Otago Daily Times yesterday incorrectly identified eight southern schools as being in serious financial difficulty in 2018.

Batten down the hatches — heavy rain and severe gales are on the way for much of the southern region.

A report published in the Otago Daily Times this morning incorrectly identified eight southern schools as being in serious financial difficulties in 2018.

Are your children misbehaving?

Speed limits around schools will be reduced in a bid to make streets safer for pupils to walk and cycle to school, but not everyone is convinced it will work.

The South may be in for a lashing of rain today as a strong moist northwest flow moves across the South Island.

Just when they thought they had seen the last of Ms Colbert at Logan Park High School, they replaced her with another Ms Colbert.

Whoever said retiring is easy was clearly misinformed.

To demolish, or not to demolish.

Given the dry conditions around Dunedin at present, St Kilda firefighters were quick to attend a vegetation fire in Macandrew Bay this afternoon.

Strath Taieri School principal Emma Barker has tendered her resignation in the wake of a Ministry of Education report which found pupil achievement and wellbeing were at "serious risk" at the school.

Following allegations of the misuse of Ministry of Education funding at Carisbrook School, embattled principal Ben Sincock has resigned.