John Lewis

State Highway 1 has reopened following a closure caused by a crash at Palmerston earlier this morning.

As the Ministry of Education's deadline for statutory intervention approaches, King's High School is preparing to meet ministry representatives to find a way forward.

Fife? What's a fife?That was Mornington School pupil Ella Moses' first reaction when she was shown the woodwind instrument recently loaned to her school.

Arranging for Chinese pupils to visit Taieri College was challenging, but now it seems getting them to want to go home again is another challenge.

King's High School's board of trustees is standing firm and completing an application to begin court proceedings against the Ministry of Education.

Emergency services workers tended to a 34-year-old man with suspected leg and chest injuries, after the bicycle he was riding was in a collision with a car in North Dunedin yesterday.

Some things never change.

Compared with life in South America, Dunedin can be a bit cold and dull at this time of year.

Fairfield School board of trustees members are facing a tough decision after learning the school is to get a million-dollar makeover.

The long and winding road to the top of New Zealand's secondary school choir rankings is never easy, but St Hilda's Collegiate's Sings Hilda Choir appears to have plenty of breath left to take on the nation's best in the Big Sing New Zealand Secondary Schools Choral Festival next month.

A new leadership programme designed by Otago Girls' High School principal Linda Miller is being watched closely by the Ministry of Education, with an eye to introducing it at secondary schools across the country.

Parents are drifting back to school this weekend - albeit only for a couple of hours - for the annual Taieri College Open Day.

The mathematical probability of Johnny Mottershead winning the 2015 Eton Press Casio Senior Mathematics Competition is pretty good - but even so, he is not placing any bets on it.

A million-dollar makeover is on the way for Fairfield School after the Ministry of Education deemed four of its classrooms ''at the end of their days''.

Former Dunedin conductor Holly Mathieson is in the limelight again - this time for her appointment as conductor of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) Junior Orchestra.

King's High School is just days away from making a historic decision about whether to follow the Ministry of Education's advice and establish an enrolment scheme at the school. 

NCEA assessments are about to hit the digital age in Otago, with a dozen schools participating in a nationwide trial of a computer-based maths assessment later this year.

What do a large industrial switchboard, some urinals, a set of heavy duty guillotine blades, a bench grinder, some boots and a Sorvall Superspeed centrifuge have in common?

Wearing leotards can cop you a lot of flak from your mates when you're a bloke.