John Lewis

''It's been embarrassingly successful,'' Brighton Gala Day organiser Colin Weatherall said at the conclusion of the public event yesterday.

Several surf life-savers were upset after a harrowing rescue in which a 14-year-old Dunedin girl nearly drowned at Brighton Beach yesterday.

It emits almost as much smoke as a house fire when it rumbles up the street.

The sun will not fry an egg on playground equipment at Arthur Burns Preschool, but it does get pretty hot.

The Portobello community has rallied to support a family left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, after a fire gutted their home on Wednesday.

A large set of keys found in Highgate last week has left Dunedin police trying to unlock the mystery as to who owns them.

A French vacationer risked his life by running into a burning building at Harington Point yesterday to rescue as many of his family's belongings as possible.

There was a time in Middlemarch when locals reckoned you could kick a tussock and either a rabbit or a member of the Tisdall family would jump out.

The discovery of toxic mould growing in the walls of a classroom and another building at Bayfield High School in Dunedin has prompted the school to demolish and rebuild the facilities at a cost of $1.4 million.

What Tony Glassford should have told his fishing buddies was that he caught a 4m marlin which got away after it broke his rod and his boat.

Jake Cropley has no Celtic ancestry, but that is not stopping the 18-year-old from helping New Zealand forge stronger cultural links with Scotland.

The moment Ruby Harris (15) and Naomi Ashby-Ryan (14) finish secondary school, they plan to head straight for Hollywood.

Tobias Devereux has done it again.

The number of people serving on school boards of trustees in Otago has declined by 133 in the past decade.

These days Josh MacMillan divides his life into two parts - bOB and aOB - before Outward Bound and after Outward Bound.

Buying school uniforms is a costly annual exercise which can force some parents beyond their financial limits and under the couch cushions looking for loose change.

For many young people, Crohn's disease is painful, debilitating and difficult to talk about with friends - and worst of all, it can leave sufferers with little to look forward to each day.

The number of Otago schools requiring Ministry of Education intervention has dropped during the past year to its lowest point since 2008.