One of the world's leading anti-smoking researchers and campaigners has accused the New Zealand Government of hypocrisy and sabotaging its own efforts to eliminate tobacco use by 2025.
Adding insult to injury, a 19-year-old skateboarder who sustained a serious leg injury after skating under a truck yesterday has been charged by Dunedin police with careless use of a skateboard.
Otago principals are questioning why the Ministry of Education is being so ''secretive'' about the amount of interest being registered in establishing charter schools in the southern region.
She can barely see over the dashboard, but it will not stop Nikita Gibson from keeping her stepfather, Tony Johnston, on the right track during the Drivesouth Rally Fest this weekend.
Dunedin North Intermediate pupils (front, from left) Thirza Brizzel, Jacinta Burney and Lennix Hibbert (all 12) enjoy wearing pink as part of Pink Shirt Day at the school yesterday.
You know things are going to get physical at the Star Regent 24 Hour Book Sale when you see people outside the doors tilting their head at awkward angles, making the bones in their neck click while they flex and stretch their limbs.
Clutha Valley School appears to be recovering from its governance woes following a 2011 Education Review Office (ERO) report which showed the school was struggling.
For about five minutes yesterday, there was little to be heard at Dunedin's Concord School, let alone
Tamsin Cooper is better known around the globe for her high-fashion designs of luxury clothing and accessories.
Otago Girls' High School won the ASB 2013 Stage Challenge its ''breathtaking'' performance of Our-tearoa, the second consecutive year it has won the event.
An Otago primary school principal believes a new online tool being developed by the Ministry of Education for assessing primary pupil achievement may go the same way as the beleaguered Novopay payroll system.
Frustrations are starting to simmer at several Dunedin secondary schools over new Otago Regional Council regulations, implemented for coal-fired boilers, which are costing schools hundreds of thousands of dollars in compliance costs.
Debating your needs and wants with your parents is one thing, but debating needs and wants on behalf of your country with other nations around the world is another thing.
Science is really taking Anne-Sophie Page places.
If there is one question that burns eternally in Timothy Chisholm's mind, it is ''why?''
Despite being filled with human-killing robots, deadly viruses and vicious wolves, Dunedin's Edgar Centre was the place to be last night.
Jacobi Kohu-Morris admits he has big shoes to fill when he takes Winston Peters' seat in Parliament later this year.
Five Bayfield High School pupils have won one of New Zealand's most prestigious rock band competitions and one of their songs will be played to hundreds of thousands of listeners across the country.
With three generations of the More family working in the law profession around New Zealand, it was only going to be a matter of time before two of them rubbed shoulders in the same courtroom.
For most of her life, Ailsa Carroll has dreamed of one day becoming an astrophysicist or an astronaut.
