More than 60 bands from the Otago region will be aiming their unique sounds at a mosh pit at this year's Smokefreerockquest in a bid to strum up more than $20,000 worth of recording opportunities and musical equipment.
With less than a week to go before outdated 5.1 versions of eftpos terminals will be deactivated, the latest figures from Paymark show about 180 businesses in Otago are still to update them.
Almost every night for the past 60 years, Gwen Black has cooked dinner for her appreciative husband Ernie.
Dunedin business leaders were singing the praises of four pupils from King's and Queen's High Schools this week after their company, Moemoea Records, won the Otago Regional Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Business Plan Oral Presentation competition.
One member of the Otago Secondary Principals' Association is suggesting all schools consider banning "planking" before someone is seriously injured or killed, while another is tackling the issue by trying not to make a big deal of it.
Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti board of trustees announced yesterday its proposal to move into the former High Street School premises in Mornington.
Dunedin's inner city bar owners have welcomed suggestions to create additional bars in the Dunedin Town Hall during the Rugby World Cup.
The world is no safer even though Osama bin Laden is dead - that is consensus of three University of Otago academics at a public forum yesterday.
A 16-year-old boy came within seconds of drowning after the car in which he was a passenger left the road near Deborah Bay and ended upside down in the harbour.
Taieri views have grown by two in the Mosgiel Library after a donation of artworks.
As flames burst from an elderly couple's Fairfield house yesterday, there was a moment of indecision for two boys on their way to school - should they call "the fire guys" or not?
Education Minister Anne Tolley has declined to reveal dates and times of her visits to the South Dunedin schools she will likely close early next month.
It is fortunate for the world that "the grandfather of climate change", Dr James Hansen, is a stubborn man.
A giraffe is an animal with four legs and a very long neck. But to Cade Westoby and Calum Glasgow, it can often look like nothing more than a yellow blur in a picture book.
Tomorrow's King's High School formal has been postponed because of poor ticket sales.
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened."
The family of a Waipu man killed in a Queenstown hang-gliding crash two years ago is pleased a coroner's investigation into the accident is over.
For those of a certain vintage, Alan Duff is best known as the author of Once Were Warriors. But for children at Forbury School, he is better known as the founder of Duffy Books in Homes.
Saying "bless you" when you sneeze at St Joseph's School in Dunedin is optional. But covering your mouth and nose is not.
Multiple power outages in Port Chalmers caused frustration for customers and Delta engineers yesterday.
