Families may have to pay more as schools face an operations grant freeze that threatens pupils' education.
Being in the same room as Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, singer Annie Lennox and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has had a profound effect on Casey Brown.
Many in the sector have been left disappointed by Budget 2016, despite investment breaking the $11billion mark for the first time.
Annabelle Ritchie is in her element when talking about Pathfinder, Opportunity (MER-B) and Curiosity.
Rather than pretty in pink, pupils and staff at Logan Park High School were staunch in pink yesterday.
An operation to rid the Antipodes Islands of mice has begun.
It's not that Frank Penny is ungrateful about receiving an award for 75 years' service to the Masonic Lodge - the 96-year-old just refuses to believe he has done anything particularly special to deserve it.
Columba College has announced a multimillion-dollar upgrade of its historic school, which will include turning the junior campus into a state-of-the-art facility, redeveloping the Bishopscourt building, and constructing new boarding facilities.
Tempers flared during a Chalmers Community Board meeting last night, when the NZ Transport Agency announced it would be at least another two years before construction could begin on the St Leonards to Port Chalmers cycleway.
A 30-year-old Dunedin man has been given a pre-charge warning after allegedly assaulting a Dunedin City Council parking warden on George St today.
Kavanagh College is continuing to build a reputation for creating education leaders.
Some of the South Island's greatest wildlife conservation minds have flocked to Dunedin to discuss how a wildlife hospital might be established in the city.
Recording its highest roll in "living memory'' has prompted Tahuna Normal Intermediate to discuss school expansions and enrolment zones with the Ministry of Education.
John Egenes has performed in front of thousands, with high-profile musicians such as Lyle Lovett, Pete Seeger, Nanci Griffith, Jerry Jeff Walker and Guy Clark.
School libraries are usually the domain of studious pupils, cramming their brains with information in preparation for exams or assessments.
A new collaboration between four Dunedin primary schools appears to be keeping a lid on bulging rolls and keeping teacher-pupil ratios in check.
If you want to learn the language of man, read the Bible. But if you want to learn the language of God, then study physics.
Brian Dagg was more than likely recalling the words of mountaineering pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary after reaching the top of Mt Everest yesterday. The 55-year-old Queenstown musterer stood on...
The Anglican Bishop of Dunedin has announced his intention to retire at Easter next year, and raised questions about whether the Dunedin diocese should replace him.
Abbotsford School is expecting to post its highest roll on record later this year, and principal Stephanie Madden is crediting the nearby railway underpass for the surge.