John Lewis

What pupils at Silverstream School know about Greg Hurley is that he is their new principal.

Ninetieth birthdays are worth celebrating in anyone's book. But what do you do if you have no family in Dunedin to celebrate it with?

The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra has received funding to the tune of $105,000 in the latest round of Dunedin City Council Project and Service Grants - some of which will be used to help complete the orchestra's new performing arts hub in Hanover St.

For nearly 90 years, Anzac Day services have been held at the Dunedin Cenotaph with temporary flagpoles.

The Government wants to see more councils amalgamate in order to reduce rates, Prime Minister John Key says.

A wintry blast yesterday brought settling snow to Dunedin for the first time this winter.

It's hard to believe, but one of the world's favourite children's entertainment groups has turned 25.

There were no fancy horse names like Maythehorsebewithu or Ray Sauce - just 75,000 sugar-coated balls of chocolate named 00001 to 75000.

It was a sight you had to see to believe.

A 28-year-old Dunedin woman is to appear in the Dunedin District Court after using her car to injure another woman.

A garage fire in Cockerell St, Dunedin, is being treated as suspicious.

Some of the region's top young science pupils got to pick the brains of some of the world's top scientific minds during the Sir Peter Blake Trust Dunedin Girls' Science and Leadership programme at the University of Otago yesterday.

Dunedin residents are being reminded to remove all valuable items from their vehicles at night after a spate of break-ins in the city yesterday.

Subsidies for home insulation have run out after hundreds of Otago residents contacted the Cosy Homes Trust during the past week, to apply for the funding scheme.

Anyone who has mown a lawn will know how easy it is to get grassed off when you have to mow that strip along the edge.

If the quality of competition at the weekend is anything to go by, the Otago Junior Robocup is as strong as in previous years.

The Dunedin City Council will take on an air of royalty during the next three to four months, after Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull took possession of a rare portrait of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 2 on Saturday.

A proposed enrolment scheme for King's High School has been approved by the Ministry of Education, and is now in force.