Increasing rolls, space constraints and the lure of possible cost reductions have prompted the Catholic Education Office to investigate moving its St Mary's School in Mosgiel to a new site.
You can almost hear city retailers singing Gaudeamus igitur ("Let us rejoice").
Three science and technology secondary school pupils from the Southern region won international travel prizes and big cash scholarships at the Genesis Energy Realise the Dream Awards at Government House, in Wellington, last night.
Several Dunedin secondary schools will create additional year 9 classes next year, following an unexpected surge in junior enrolments.
A musical theatre summer school planned for young performers in Dunedin during the school holidays has been cancelled because of lack of interest.
The Government's proposal to introduce charter schools is nothing more than an opportunity for a school to "cherry-pick pupils and usher low-achieving students out the door", a teachers' leader says.
In a move resembling the naming of Forsyth Barr Stadium, the Dunedin City Council is exploring the possibility of financial gain from Dunedin business naming rights on rooms in the upgraded Municipal Chambers and Dunedin Centre.
A New Zealander now living in Australia was escorted from a cruise ship by Dunedin police and Customs officers after the ship berthed in Port Chalmers yesterday.
Maxine Shanks has scholarships galore.
An experienced ambulance officer has been left with burns following an explosion at the St John ambulance depot in Dunedin yesterday.
This is the season for outdoor cannabis growing, and Southern District police are calling for landowners to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity that could be related to the plant's cultivation.
A barn dance of primary school principals is about to take place in Dunedin with the retirement of several principals, and the movement of others, scheduled for the end of this term.
In a bid to stop "fit for consumption" food from going to waste in Otago, Countdown and the Salvation Army have launched a programme whereby food from the supermarket is redirected to the Salvation Army food banks.
The name of the historic Dunedin rugby and cricket ground, Carisbrook, looks likely to live on in the name of a new local school.
The popular stereotype that girls and computer science do not mix is one pupils at Columba College are helping to turn around.
Yvonne Durham may be 79, but her experiences in the ways of the world haven't warmed her to having her photo taken.
A volunteer organisation providing early childhood education for preschoolers in Pine Hill is upset its premises has again become the target of vandalism.
After reading an Otago Daily Times feature about the perils of tramping in the Silver Peaks, a mother and her son set off into the rough hill country on Saturday ... and got lost.
Launching a career in aviation is no longer just "pie in the sky" stuff for Otago secondary school pupils.
Sam Snell, James Phizacklea and Noah Linscott are like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
