For more than 40 years, David Feather and Max Larkins have been making sure important mail such as birthday cards, letters from home, medical appointments and, of course, the bills, reaches your post box each morning.
The Ministry of Education has called for tenders to develop the Otago Girls' High School music department to the tune of nearly $2 million.
If a goat is tethered with a 4.5m-long rope to the corner of a shed which is 2m long and 2m wide, what is the maximum area the goat can graze?
If three Columba College pupils could see their business plan come to fruition, every hospital in New Zealand would have a 3-D printer creating low-cost prosthetic limbs for amputees.
James Eason takes one look at me and says: ''You're a 9 - maybe a 9.''
No matter how difficult the questions are, the South Island Secondary Schools Brain Bee Challenge is no place to lose your head.
Otago principals have backed a New Zealand Principals' Federation (NZPF) survey which shows schools across the country are vehemently opposed to the Government's $359 million Investing in Educational Success (IES) policy.
Two Dunedin physical education teachers are among eight nationwide to receive prestigious awards to study overseas.
The new wood pellet boilers heating many of Dunedin's schools are costing more than three times as much to run as their older coal-fired equivalents, which has left one school principal regretting the decision to move to wood pellets. Reporter John Lewis talks to several Dunedin schools about why they have, or have not, converted to the new technology.
The hunt is over at Kaikorai Valley College after a major search found the leaking pipe which was causing heating woes.
For most Taieri College senior pupils, the school ball is one of the highlights of the year, if not their entire secondary education.
The answers to some of the nation's future financial dilemmas may rest in the hands of pupils from southern secondary schools.
A South Otago farmer has gone off his swede after someone raided the honesty box on his swede stall at the weekend.
Historic Dunedin house Olveston was this week named New Zealand's top attraction by TripAdvisor. Reporter John Lewis went along to see what all the fuss was about.
There is a certain level of pride a history teacher can take from co-writing an NCEA teaching unit for the Ministry of Education.
A multimillion-dollar secondary boarding school for Muslim boys is to go ahead in South Dunedin, the Al-Noor Charitable Trust has confirmed.
After running halfway around the world in a bid to set a Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation, the only thing Kevin Carr is tired of is being pulled over by the police.
IN an age where most of our written communication is via email, texting and social media, East Taieri School has ''stepped back in time'' to rediscover the art of letter writing.
Principal Jennifer Horgan said letter writing was a foreign concept to many pupils, who believed it was something people did in the ''olden days''.
With a third of the acts in this year's Otago regional final of the Smokefreerockquest coming from Taieri College, it is no surprise pupils picked up an award or two.
Talks between Silver Fern Farms and the New Zealand Meat Workers' Union (NZMW) appear to be in disarray.