Claims that special needs children at Dunedin's Sara Cohen School have been hit, sat on and force-fed by staff, have been labelled false by several parents of pupils at the school.
Bathgate Park School principal Whetu Cormick is to take up to two years' leave, to take on duties as president of the New Zealand Principals' Federation in Wellington.
Prefabricated walls are erected on a new warehouse/showroom at the site of the former Bodyline Collision Panel and Paint building in Wharf St, which was destroyed by fire in June last year.
No sooner were the covers pulled from artist Paul Dibble’s five bronze statues during an unveiling at the University of Otago yesterday, they looked like they had somewhere else to be.
The mother of an autistic boy believes he's likely to end up incarcerated or in a mental health facility, unless the Ministry of Education provides more teacher aide support for him.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of unpaid school fees owed by parents may start to hinder Dunedin school finances and educational opportunities, principals say.
International opera singer and former Dunedin resident Anna Leese Guidi is to move back to Dunedin early next month, after learning her Italian husband Stefano has a terminal illness.
For the first time in the history of the Society of Beer Advocates (SOBA) national homebrew competition, a Dunedin brewer has won both the champion beer award and the champion brewer award.