John Lewis

Outbreaks of gastroenteritis have been reported at two Dunedin aged care facilities and families are being asked to limit visits.

Education Minister Chris Hipkins is dreaming if he thinks luring expatriate and overseas teachers to New Zealand will solve the teacher shortage crisis, Otago educators say.

It was just another day at the office for Charles Higham.

A small group of University of Otago humanities students showed it does not take a lot of people to brainstorm for solutions - just passionate ones.

Four new Nasa scholarships could result in a University of Otago student becoming New Zealand's first astronaut in space in the ''very near future'', United States ambassador Scott Brown says.

When Andy Thompson agreed to photograph the award winners at the recent New Zealand Outdoor Instructors' Association excellence awards dinner, the last thing he expected to hear was his name being...

Singing and dancing is typically what people do to win reality TV talent shows.

To be awarded a John McGlashan College Challenge ring, you have to do something pretty extraordinary, like ride a bicycle up Mt Everest.

There have probably been some choice words said by many a parent over the years after they stood on a Lego brick on their way to the toilet in the middle of the night.

Winter may officially be over, but it appears there is still some leftover snow which MetService is predicting will fall in parts of Otago and Southland on Wednesday.

A new online tool — believed to be the first of its kind  — can predict the academic outcomes of school pupils and is being developed in Dunedin.

Spring is the season for growth, but unusually, it is traffic lights that are springing up across Dunedin.