John Lewis

The SPCA has issued a timely reminder to make sure pets will be well looked after while owners are away on holiday.

It seems Mike Rankin's luck has not yet run out.

Tayla Ward is turning heads on the luging slopes of Europe after winning a major luging event in Austria this week.

Adam Clark (15), of Middlemarch, shares a moment with Wooliam, the official mascot for the 2015 Fifa Under 20 Football World Cup, during a visit to the children's ward at Dunedin Hospital yesterday.

Stanley Paris is hoping he is more than a quarter of the way through his circumnavigation as he enters the Southern Ocean, halfway between South America and South Africa.

One of Dunedin's top secondary school pupils has been snapped up by a private Ivy League research university, to study in the United States.

A meeting between the Ministry of Education and Dunedin's 12 secondary schools has left some school leaders questioning whether the ministry is gearing up to close one of them.

The pin has been pulled on a paint party planned for the heart of Dunedin's student area in February.

They work together, they eat lunch together, they even visit each other at home on the weekends.

A 100-year-old kindergarten has been saved from closure at the ''11th hour''.

Christmas has come early this year for staff at Dunedin Hospital's children's ward, after the Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal yesterday gave $115,495 for new specialised equipment.

After crossing the equator into the South Atlantic Ocean, Stanley Paris has edged ahead of the world record-holder in his bid to become the fastest man to sail around the world.

When Jenny Clarke finishes school for the year, her thoughts will be turning to Finland.

For years, rumours have circulated around Kaikorai Valley College that Santa Claus has been working there as a teacher in the ''off-season''.

There are still many reminders of the late Charlie Boyes around Dunedin, but few may recognise them.

Persistence paid off for an Abbotsford School pupil who pestered All Black Ben Smith for months - including in person as a ballboy - to donate one of his jerseys to the school.

Police retrieved the body of a man body from Otago Harbour this morning, after it was discovered by a member of the public.

A Balclutha parent has resigned from her school's board of trustees because she believes it is not taking her concerns about Wi-Fi in classrooms seriously.