On what is traditionally the most discounted day of the shopping calendar, Otago consumers surged past the tills, creating the highest year-on-year growth in Boxing Day spending in New Zealand.
A necklace of islands mooted for the upper harbour, using 7.2 million cubic metres of spoil dredged from lower Otago Harbour, is gaining traction.
Nearly 30 teachers have received criminal convictions in Otago during the past eight years, ranging from drugs and alcohol offences to violence and pornography offending.
Otago roads remained uneventful yesterday as the exodus of holidaymakers began.
The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be one of the busiest on record for Dunedin camping grounds.
An 80-year-old man has been brought to tears by the theft of porcelain angels from the graves of his three daughters at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
When it comes time to take a holiday from his work as a search and rescue helicopter pilot for the Austrian Government, Jurgen Albrecht prefers to do it on wheels rather than rotor blades.
Despite concerns about heavy rain and rising river levels in the Otago region on Friday night, there was only minor surface flooding and no damage done to property at the weekend.
A Dunedin family had to pack a bag and leave their house on Saturday night after a party across the street descended into chaos, police say.
The flat housing market which has gripped much of the country for the past two years has taken its toll on real estate companies in the southern region.
Leaving a life based in a classroom after 35 years as a teacher won't be easy.
The nervous wait is over for more than 6350 NCEA and 439 New Zealand Scholarship candidates in the Otago region, now that examination results have been posted online.
Education staff selection has truly entered the digital age.
An Auckland conservation architect is in Port Chalmers this week, drawing up plans to make sure the historic Iona Church does not end up in the same state as many of its counterparts in Christchurch after a natural disaster.
On holiday, most tourists snap photos, collect souvenirs or send postcards. But not German tourist Oliver Wild. He collects tattoos.
It will be a new year and a new era for Bathgate Park School, but some are predicting it will be plagued by the same old problems.
The Ministry of Education has again intervened in the operations of Rotary Park School, this time by appointing a commissioner to govern the troubled school.
Kiwi chicks could be scuttling around the Orokonui Ecosanctuary by the end of this year, as 16 Haast tokoeka kiwi have already begun preparations for breeding.
If you have ever taken part in a pub quiz you know it brings out the best and worst in people. John Lewis discovers there is a underbelly to the brain-teasing entertainment.
Large colourful crops of oil-seed rape may become a more common sight on Otago farms in the future as the biofuel revolution gathers momentum.
