Pipe bands in Otago and Southland have avoided ending their long run of contests in the Octagon on a sour note, by consulting businesses in the CBD and gaining overwhelming support for the competition to continue.
A Dunedin theologian believes the system of government in New Zealand is ill-equipped to deal with reports such as the Salvation Army's recently released 2013 state of the nation report, which tend to get swept under the rug.
Achieving top marks in New Zealand scholarship examinations has put three former Dunedin secondary school pupils in a league with the best and brightest in the country.
A small group of men is again lathering up for this year's Vision Topless Car Wash to raise funds for the Otago Cancer Society, but there appears to be a drought of men in Dunedin willing to take their shirts off to help.
A manufacturing delay means the long-awaited return of blazers to the Kaikorai Valley College uniform has been prolonged.
Otago principals are on edge after documents show the Treasury has indicated a preference for bulk funding in New Zealand schools.
Despite the Government agreeing to inject $5 million into fixing Novopay, Otago principals say the fact remains that 98% of schools in New Zealand have little or no confidence in the beleaguered payroll system.
Postal deliveries may be delayed to parts of Otago and Southland during the next six weeks, as Dunedin International Airport is temporarily closed in the evenings to upgrade the runway.
Two residents of outback Australia got a shock as they turned in to Dunedin's Bath St on Saturday.
The occupants of a utility vehicle which was crushed ''as flat as a pancake'' after it plunged about 50m down a steep face near Lee Stream are lucky to be alive, Dunedin police say.
After more than 30 years of producing Scouting Otago's Gang Shows, Noel and Sue Walker say they are just as enthusiastic about this year's show as they were their first.
There was a point when Andrew Logie and Ed Davies thought, ''This is just ridiculous - why are we doing this?''
The Otago Primary Principals' Association says the Government is to blame for an Education Review Office report which criticises many primary schools around the country for not being flexible enough in the provision of their maths curriculum.
Four tourists who broke into the city's storm-water network on Thursday night could have been killed by a dangerous build-up of hydrogen sulphide gas, and the Dunedin City Council has publicly chastised them for their ''extreme foolishness''.
Gregory Cook has won many awards for medical research during the past two decades, but says the one he received this week at the Otago School of Medical Sciences annual awards ceremony takes the cake.
Lorraine Scott (left) and daughter Jan Scott prepare knitted childrens-wear for sale at the Thieves Alley markets, but for the first time in nearly 30 years, the 78-year-old will not be behind a stall tomorrow.
Dunedin police are considering whether to lay charges after four tourists entered a stormwater drain outside Toitu Otago Settlers Museum last night to explore some of Dunedin's less familiar and subterranean sites.
St Mary's School in Mosgiel was filled with pupils wandering around wide-eyed and scratching their heads yesterday, wondering how their old classrooms could have changed so much.
Former Dunedin runner William Tokona has his mind firmly set on running the Marathon de Sables in April after completing five marathons in five cities in five days.
A supermarket is destined for the former St Mary's School site in Mosgiel.