John Lewis

Putting the world to rights will be the aim of four Otago secondary school pupils later this month when they attend the Sir Peter Blake Youth EnviroLeaders Forum in Christchurch.

Columba College has made significant changes to its outdoor education policies in the wake of an incident last month in which 18 pupils narrowly avoided drowning when they were caught in a dangerous rip near Purakaunui.

Forget golf, rugby, tennis or car racing. It seems the family game of Scrabble is where all the best prizes are.

The creator of a new Perspex shark cage has been left feeling a little jittery following the first of several sea trials to be carried out near Stewart Island this week.

Milk may be flowing into Otago and Southland primary schools as early as next month as Fonterra takes the next step in its nationwide introduction of Milk for Schools programme.

A photograph of a sun-loving Labrador bounding down a beach in the Catlins has fetched Emma Cunningham one of the top awards in the New Zealand Walking Access Commission's Top Outdoor Spot competition.

Dunedin businesses appear to be up with the play when it comes to Holidays Act surcharges over Easter.

The weather this weekend is expected, for the most part, to be as bright and shiny as an Easter egg, the MetService has forecast.

One of the world's leading sopranos was all smiles yesterday as she viewed her likeness in a stained-glass window at St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.

A former Dunedin conductor and composer has launched a new organisation in Germany aimed at performing New Zealand compositions using New Zealand musicians living in Europe.

Investigations are under way to determine interest in establishing a charter school in Dunedin, despite the educational model being criticised by educational groups nationally.

Logan Park High School musicians Jacobi Kohu-Morris (15, left) and Blake McAlevey-Scurr (17) provide some entertainment as international pupils at the school celebrate Race Unity Day.

There was a look of horror as Hamilton pilot Richard Small watched his 1969 Piper Twin Comanche touch down at Taieri Aerodrome and crash off the end of the runway yesterday.

Even though it was once New Zealand's largest school, there will be little pomp and circumstance when the King Edward Technical College building turns 100 today.

A Mornington woman is being hailed a heroine after running into a burning Dunedin City Council flat to pull a 54-year-old man to safety.

Otago school principal representatives remain distrustful about the troubled Novopay system, despite a Government support package and a review which says the system can be fixed.

Irish ballads and rain weren't the only things in the air for St Patrick's Day this year.