A badly decomposed body has been discovered in a house in Mataura, in Southland.
The primary and secondary education of a child born in New Zealand today is expected to cost parents up to $326,773, a new study has found.
The Year of the Monkey is about to begin and to help celebrate the Chinese New Year in Dunedin, some of China's top acrobats and theatre performers will put on a show.
Remnants of Dunedin life in the 1860s are being uncovered by heavy machinery and archaeologists this week following the demolition of the Barningham Building at the University of Otago Dental School.
Getting debilitating motion sickness at the sight of a boat in water can be a major problem for passionate rowers - such as Enid Barron.
When the line on Jordan Pearson's rod took off in the Dunedin Harbour basin yesterday, he knew dinner was going to be spectacular.
It may seem like Paul Gourlie and Hidenori Koike are just taking a leisurely bike ride along State Highway 1, but in reality they are watching you.
There always seems to be an awkward silence whenever Chris Hamblin mentions he sleeps with his piano.
Apparently, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing - especially when it comes to the Kelly triplets.
Mitch Pereira is "one in a million'' - but not for the reasons the talented young rugby player wants to be.
The tertiary education sector has given big ticks to Labour leader Andrew Little's proposal to provide three years of free post-school education so young New Zealanders ‘‘can thrive in the 21st century economy''.
Two Dunedin violinists are among the country's top classical musicians to be selected for the 2016 NZSO National Youth Orchestra.
Yoga is probably the last thing you would expect to see a hardened, windswept biker doing.
Julie Woods has visited the seven wonders of the world, smelt whisky distilling in the highlands of Scotland, heard Big Ben chime 12 noon while standing on London Bridge, eaten Margherita pizza in Italy and touched the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
Dangling precariously from a sailing ship's 35m-high mast in soggy weather used to shiver Matthew Smith's timbers.
A "man-in-the-street'' survey conducted by a retired Dunedin academic has found 90% of respondents have trouble recognising the difference between the Australian and the New Zealand flags.
Dunedin city organist David Burchell takes a master class in articulation in the St Joseph's Cathedral chapel during the first day of the Australia and New Zealand College of Organists Academy yesterday.
Staff morale in some Dunedin secondary schools is low in the wake of Ministry of Education discussions on how to make the city's secondary school network more efficient, an independent consultant has found.
This time last year, Melissa Bell was the principal of one of Otago's top girls' secondary schools.
It was all fun in the sun at Tomahawk Beach for Kim Bailey, until screams of alarm rolled in from the shoreline.