John Lewis

Dunedin police are "stoked" to have found a pig hunter, feared dead after he failed to return from an expedition on Sunday afternoon.

In a shock announcement, Taieri College principal Christina Herrick has resigned.

In another life, Koen Swennen is the owner of a taxi company in Belgium, while Friedemann Vetter owns a German electricity distribution company.

His name is Buster - he is also known as Christmas Dinner 2013 - and he is the latest addition to the flock of flatties living in a Drummond St student flat.

A head of steam was building among Steam Festival organisers and passengers awaiting a ride on the historic Ka 942 steam engine yesterday when it failed to arrive in Dunedin on time.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. It's a philosophy which has motivated Bathgate Park School teacher Sandy Ehlers to spend the past 13 years undertaking a law degree part-time at the University of Otago.

Many Otago schools have begun paying teachers' wages out of their own funds in the wake of the Novopay debacle, which has left many teachers and support staff without regular salary payments.

The steam engine supposed to be the centre-piece of Dunedin's Steam Festival has been delayed again - this time because Christchurch rail staff did not attach it to the train booked to bring it south.

A Dunedin relief teacher says he and the administration staff at the schools he works at have spent almost as much time trying to sort out his pay than he has spent doing his job.

South Dunedin is about to host a secondary boarding school for senior Muslim boys, in a former Roman Catholic school.

It is not often that bullets are designed for comfort.

If you could understand Muhammad Sadik's email, with its incorrect grammar and spelling, you might be a little afraid.

Many of the issues plaguing the Ministry of Education's new Novopay payroll system appear to have been resolved, but Otago primary principals say the system is still far from error-free.

He ain't from these parts, and many Dunedin folk will have no idea who he is. But American rodeo celebrity Kedo Olson is well known in rodeo circles and anyone wearing cowboy boots will be delighted he is coming to the city to announce at the Dunedin International Rodeo at Forsyth Barr Stadium on November 17.

A Christchurch businesswoman who came to Dunedin to escape the Canterbury earthquakes says life in Dunedin is almost as frustrating.

The number of people being prosecuted for trespassing at the Dunedin Public Library appears to have nearly doubled in the past year.

A short story based on a child's experiences growing up in Central Otago and working after school in her father's shop has won former Otago author Julie Helean the Katherine Mansfield Award at the BNZ Literary Awards.

After nearly 50 years in the teaching profession, and despite her love of working with children, Amana Christian School founder and principal Roslyn King says it is time to call it a day.