John Lewis

Round-the world solo yachtsman Stanley Paris has significant injuries after falling from his mast, more than 2000km east of Porto Alegre, in Brazil.

The Columba College board of governors has stepped into a controversy at the school, in an unexpected attempt to resolve allegations of bullying between the principal and staff.

Cleaning up horse poo is one of the best parts of Shania Hutton's week.

It's a community with a holiday population of a couple of hundred people, few of them are related, but all treat each other like close family. Reporter John Lewis takes a look at one of Otago's most popular holiday haunts, Toko Mouth.

Whether ghosts are fact or fable, you will have to decide. Reporter John Lewis rips the sheets off some of Dunedin's best ghost stories to reveal the history behind the haunts.

Christmas Eve and Boxing Day spending records have been smashed out of the park, Paymark figures reveal, and a Dunedin business leader says Otago's spending is clear evidence residents are confident about their financial future.

Excitement was yesterday building among scientists and crew aboard MV Akademik Shokalskiy as the first of three icebreakers was expected to arrive overnight to help free it from Antarctic pack ice.

Christmas dinner was the end of an era this year for the Rev David (65) and Jean (66) Brown.

Although most New Zealanders would despair at the thought of spending Christmas Day in a tent on what was one of the wettest Christmas Days in years, French Canadians Camille Messier and Heloise Desrochers revelled in it.

HMNZS Otago was heading south yesterday after making another brief return to Otago Harbour during its mission patrolling the Southern Ocean.

Inclement weather seemed to have little effect on attendance at Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services this year.

Santa came early for the Otago Students' Spearfishing and Hunting Club with the arrival of a new boat.

The Dunedin suburb of Waldronville is scheduled to grow by at least 25 properties in the next two and a-half years after a property developer bought the former school and playcentre for $1,035,000.

Near-death experiences have a way of making you reassess what is important in life.

David Grant's festive greeting includes a warning this year.

Two downpours this week have been a disaster for one Dunedin retailer but could provide a windfall for customers.

Year 6 pupils show their excitement as they leave Andersons Bay School, Dunedin, for the last time yesterday, their final day of school for the year.

A Logan Park High School pupil has won a major travel award in the Genesis Energy Realise the Dream competition after developing a method to test for soil nutrients using digital photographs of plants.