A former Dunedin osteopath who threatened to strangle a colleague until her ''eyeballs popped out'' has been suspended from practising in New Zealand for 12 months and will have to pay fines and costs of nearly $50,000.
A former Dunedin osteopath threatened to strangle a colleague until her ''eyes popped out'', the New Zealand Health Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal was told yesterday.
Kurtis Bain describes his hairstyle as ''funky''. Taieri College sees it as ''extreme'', and the 15-year-old has been told he will not be allowed to return to class until it has been rectified. ...
Columba College, Dunedin, has appointed its first new principal in 35 years.
Otago primary schools have outclassed the rest of the country's schools by recording the highest levels of achievement in reading, writing and mathematics, Ministry of Education data shows.
Step aside, Rainbow Loom and other schoolyard crazes - a new one may be about to tie up children's imagination and attention.
Who said school rules can't be changed?
One look said it all. Ala Ghandour never expected to look so horrific.
More than 110 delegates from the printing industry across the South Pacific converged on Dunedin yesterday for the annual Single Width Users Group New Zealand (Swug) conference.
What better way to celebrate the end of winter than trudging around in mud up to your armpits.
The state of low-income private rental housing in Dunedin continues to decline at an alarming rate, Presbyterian Support Otago has revealed.
Southern breweries are fizzing after again gaining several awards in the 2014 Brewers' Guild of New Zealand Beer Awards.
Ben Lovelock and William McLauchlan are popular at home when it is time to put the dishes away.
Green Island Fireside Club members (from left) Elaine Wishart (81), Peter Randall (89), Bev Tetlow (66), Doris Kinraid (84), Faith Gray, Isabel Campbell (82), Daph White (68), June Anderson (84) and conductor Kelvin Tetlow (67) perform the National Anthem at the start of their concert in the Janet Cameron Hall in Green Island on Saturday.
Forsyth Barr Stadium was full of high-fliers on Saturday night - and not the kind you'd expect to find in the corporate boxes.
King's High School principal Dan Reddiex has learned the hard way that he is no longer one of the boys.
Great minds designed Forsyth Barr Stadium to keep out snow and other unpleasant weather.
This weekend nearly 30 years ago Holly Mathieson was a nervous wreck.
University of Otago researchers have found new ways to detect changes occurring on the surface of the bowel, which may lead to better treatment for hundreds of children with Crohn's disease and colitis.
New Zealand state girls' schools are looking more to community organisations to support their pupils' education, a national conference in Dunedin has shown.
