John Lewis

An unexpected cash injection of more than $18,600 has allowed the Save the Otago Peninsula Society to complete one of its environmental protection projects well ahead of schedule.

When the beneficiary of a novelty fundraising rubber duck race also wins first prize for backing the winning duck, there are always going to be those who suggest there has been ''fowl play''.

Home is where the heart is, but it's also nice to have a place that you can call your own.

Exiting one's front door in sunny, 20degC temperatures, one could expect it to be a fantastic day for surfing at St Clair Beach in Dunedin.

The Dunedin City Council's cycle skills training programme is on a roll after receiving four new bikes to help make children street-wise.

It has been something of a family joke over the years.

A 32-year-old Chinese tourist will appear in the Dunedin District Court today after a 5-year-old Oamaru girl died as a result of a car crash near Moeraki.

Dunedin police are searching for three ''European'' males after a 32 year old Dunedin man was stabbed outside his home yesterday morning.

Wakatipu High School is moving into a new class with the academic heavyweights of Otago secondary schools after posting several excellent results in the past 12 months.

Police search and rescue staff are considering the possibility a German tourist, believed to be missing in remote bush in the Manapouri area, has walked out on her own accord and continued her tour of New Zealand.

It seems Harry Potter is the inspiration behind Kaikorai Valley College's initiative to resurrect the school's house system, for the first time in more than 40 years.

What would you attempt to do, if you knew you could not fail?The question is framed on Jaimee Smith's office wall, and has provided inspiration every day for the past 20 years.

Jacobi Kohu-Morris is hoping his emotions do not get the better of him this Anzac Day when he visits Gallipoli - but just in case they do, he will have a large stash of hankerchiefs with him.

Traditionally, when members of Oil Free Otago gather in Dunedin's Octagon, it is a noisy affair with messages of protest.

They say there's no such thing as a free lunch, but yesterday there was a free breakfast for anyone in the Octagon who turned up on a bicycle.

The roses are red, and John van Delft is far from blue.