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.
Seldom are Dunedin police cells left open for people to come and go as they please.
When Joshua Clydesdale was rushed to Dunedin Hospital early on Saturday, the last thing he expected to see during his visit was several players from the England rugby team.
In an ''unplanned and unexpected move'', Queen's High School principal Julie Anderson has resigned to take up a newly developed position at the Ministry of Education.
The title of Otago's largest school has a new holder: King's High School.
Supermarket shoppers at three Dunedin Countdown stores can now buy some Lotto tickets from self-service checkouts as well as from those operated by staff.
Two Dunedin secondary school pupils will test their business acumen to the maximum this weekend when they take part in two international entrepreneurial competitions.
A powerful speech about using education as a weapon to defeat poverty, crime and the inter-generational cycle of hardship has won Jacobi Kohu-Morris the Nga Manu Korero Otago Southland speech contest for the second year in a row.
Taieri school principals are angry none of five proposed 40kmh speed zones will be set up around their schools.
Three southern secondary school pupils will travel to France next month, where they will attend World War 1 commemorations as New Zealand's young ambassadors.
Dunedin schools have called for a blanket 40kmh speed zone to be implemented around all schools in the city, not just a selected few.
A leaking pipe is causing heating woes and headaches for Kaikorai Valley College in Dunedin.
There was no ''wax on or wax off'' during a karate demonstration at Queen's High School yesterday - just a graphic lesson in physics.
It's always a nice surprise when you are selected for a scholarship, Mathew Denys says.
Unfair playground deals between pupils have forced several Dunedin primary schools to ban the latest trading card craze.
Telecommunications cabinets around Dunedin have traditionally been targets for taggers.
If you have ever wanted to walk through some wild parts of Fiordland but don't think you have the legs for it, Kavanagh College has the answer.
An unlicenced 16-year-old Dunedin youth is in hospital with a serious head injury after fleeing police in a high-speed pursuit.