John Lewis

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.

The irony of an all-girl secondary school winning a Shakespearean play competition has not been lost on drama pupils at Dunedin's Columba College.

Almost a third of Kaikorai Valley College's land is to be disposed of by the Ministry of Education after being deemed surplus to requirements.

The woes of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti appear to be continuing as the Ministry of Education appoints a limited statutory manager to take control of the school's finances.

Four of Otago's top secondary school art pupils have works on display in a New Zealand touring exhibition which will appear in Otago and Southland galleries next month as part of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority's annual Top Art exhibition.

In the Halls on Mt Everest, there is an adventurous spirit - particularly in Dean Hall.

Otago schools have recorded their most significant roll increase in more than a decade, with 352 more pupils in the region than last year, Ministry of Education figures show.

As if running 230km through the Sahara Desert in temperatures of up to 54degC wasn't difficult enough, former Dunedin runner William Tokona did it with injuries.

The Ocean Lyre, Bubbles from the Thirsty Sevenths, Shell Shocks ... they are just some of the many troop ship journals that give insights into the recesses of World War 1 soldiers' minds as they were shipped off to the front lines.

Secondary school pupils are being given a fresh perspective on their future in the arts, at the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust's Fresh Horizons programme in Dunedin this week.

Making more than 4000 posies out of rosemary to put on servicemen's graves on Anzac Day is expected to leave those handling them yearning for a roast lamb dinner tonight.

The first public concert in the Dunedin Town Hall in nearly three years, may be overshadowed by a mix-up in seating arrangements.

With the centenary of the start of World War 1 fast approaching, Rotary clubs in the southern region are sprucing up war memorials in rural parts of Otago and Southland - many of them in time for Anzac Day on Thursday.

Plummeting American and Asian tourist numbers are forcing Dunedin's Baldwin Street Tourist Shop to close.

A decade ago, Gerry Smith was well into his retirement and the last thing he expected to be celebrating this week was a 10-year career as a radio announcer.