The head of the University of Otago accountancy and business law department has described as a "misconception" allegations by stadium opponents of misleading accountancy practices by the Carisbrook Stadium Trust.
Scouts New Zealand has begun sprucing up its image in a bid to recruit new leaders and children after a recent head count found nationwide membership had dropped by 52% in the past 15 years.
An oil spill from a simulated shipping accident turned Otago Harbour into a hive of activity and put the responses of Otago Regional Council and Maritime New Zealand staff to the test yesterday.
Auckland . . . the final frontier.
Thick fog at Dunedin International Airport this morning has prevented a flight from Christchurch from landing and the cancellation of the 8.20am departing flight from Dunedin to Christchurch.
Last week, the family of Otago poet Hone Tuwhare was worried about how they would find the money to make sure their father's house would not be lost to the art and writing community.
Otago secondary school principals say a lack of government funding is beginning to take a toll on educating the region's special needs pupils.
A Mosgiel hi-fi products manufacturer is making big noises in the audio industry, heralding the launch of its latest creation, a precisely potent beast billed as the world's most powerful Class-AB integrated amplifier.
Wakari School's hall, which has been on the site for more than 110 years, was officially reopened yesterday after a $750,000 refurbishment.
New Zealand's No 1 under-18 Highland and national dancer at the age of 14, Rosa Sangster still has a big dream to fulfill.
Family Wheels Day yesterday may have been intended as a celebration of the completion of stage one and two of the Harbour Cycleway.
A dream to turn Otago poet Hone Tuwhare's Kaka Point house into a retreat for artists and writers in residence is a step closer to reality as supportive old friends and community organisations emerge from the woodwork.
The Education Minister is taking a close look at an independent survey carried out by Dunedin accounting firm Polson Higgs, which has found schools have "inadequate" operational funding and are being propped up by locally-raised funds.
Pupils from Otago Boys High School and Otago Girls High School received intensive military-styled leadership training this week, the first as part of a new initiative created by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
The family of one of "Otago's greatest adopted sons", poet Hone Tuwhare, is worried their father's Kaka Point home may be lost to future generations of artists and writers as its mortgage comes due.
It is not often three blokes could be considered a luxury.
Secondary school teachers from around Otago became students again for a day during a series of seminars about "thinking" at Otago Girls High School on Friday.
"The whole place just stank of bonfire. The smell will haunt me for a long time."
An 18-year-old youth was arrested in Oamaru last night after allegedly robbing a Japanese tourist at gunpoint in broad daylight.
Temporary job vacancies in Otago and Southland have increased in the past three months, despite economic conditions affecting several large employers in the region.
