John Lewis

Portraits of early pioneers on display at the Otago Settlers Museum will be preserved online later this year, following a substantial donation from the Otago Settlers Association.

Both Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela promoted the phrase "be the change if you wish to see the change" - and these words of wisdom were also the theme for Catholic Schools' Day yesterday.

Prime Minister John Key's commissioning of urgent research to better understand the issues which can make adolescence a "powder keg" of bad decisions and risky behaviour has been welcomed by a University of Otago psychologist and a parenting counsellor.

The co-ordinator of a new programme at Otago Community Hospice, in Dunedin, hopes to ease the fear and uncertainty many people feel when a loved one is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Here lies the dilemma. Do you park illegally outside the school gates for seven seconds to allow your 10-year-old daughter to jump in the car after school? Or do you keep on driving and let your 10-year-old daughter chase you around the block until you find a legitimate car park?

It is a map that should look vaguely familiar to the people of Warrington.

Less than a week after being honoured at Britain's classical music awards, New Zealand opera diva Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has confirmed she will give a recital in Dunedin in October as part of the Otago Festival of the Arts.

KiwiRail's Hillside workshops may have won a $40 million contract to deliver carriages to Tranz Scenic, but it has not stopped Government, Dunedin City Council and Dunedin business representatives from moving ahead with plans to win at least some construction work on the $500 million tender for Auckland's trains.

"I picked up Chinese by accident," Columba College pupil Sarah Agyeman says.

The view from near the top of the world is humbling - not because of the vista but for the way of life of the people who live there.

The Otago Parents of Deaf Children Association is calling on the Ministry of Education for help as funding for a deaf resource person in the region looks set to dry up next month.

He only has three legs and one eye, he likes to listen to country music, he's quite tall and slim, he smells really bad, he gets up early in the morning and hasn't had any coffee, he's always getting up to mischief but he's quite good looking.

Come on everybody, get up out of your seat - Dunedin's newest cheerleading squad will be a treat that can't be beat.

Animal rights will be given a major boost in Otago with the establishment of a Student Animal Legal Defence Fund chapter at the University of Otago.

Anya Jade Erskine's timing was perfect.

"It never ceases to amaze me, the way children can grasp concepts and develop emotionally, physically and academically as they go through the school."

Rather than being a highlight, a stroll along Victory beach looking at the Peninsula's wildlife turned out to be a disenchanting experience for a German and two Spanish tourists.

Three Dunedin science pupils have been selected to represent New Zealand at international science and technology events.