John Lewis

Have you ever heard of a hash brown jamwich?It is two slices of toast, slathered in raspberry jam, stuck together with a hash brown in between.

Traditionally, homework has been the only thing schools have given pupils to take home.

What started as a science experiment could become a lucrative manufacturing business for Karl Brinsdon.

A search is under way for a particularly imposing and creepy phantom in South Dunedin and it could last for up to four days.

An attempt to beat New Zealand Olympians Mahe Drysdale and Emma Twigg in a rowing race yesterday left about a dozen Logan Park High School pupils gasping for air and flapping blistered hands.

Taieri Gorge Railways will roll down a new track this weekend, by rebranding as Dunedin Railways.

Otago Girls' High School has become New Zealand's first all-girls state secondary school to win a National School of Character award.

It's been called the Toaster and the Glasshouse.

Outram was a sight for sore eyes for Luke O'Malley, when he cycled into the township last week.

Dunedin is putting on a blooming good show of rhododendrons, one of the world's foremost authorities on the flower says.

The recurring theft of emergency lifebuoys from cabinets on Customhouse Quay has prompted fears someone will die if it continues.

A 7-year-old with their own cheque book is probably not a good idea - unless it is one issued by the bank of Big Value Christmas.

Several international studies have highlighted the effectiveness of anaesthetic drug ketamine in treating depression, Prof Paul Glue says.

To the lay person, the back of Frank Bell's homemade radio transmitter looks like a box of spare parts.

Rangi and Karetai have been familiar sights on Otago Harbour for about 40 years, but the long-serving tug boats will be little more than a memory come Monday.

If you've never seen or heard of Tanya Faiva before, you soon will.

Matt Sainsbury will spit tacks - and maybe even some blood - if he doesn't get through the first round of auditions for next year's The X Factor.

If it were not for changing tidal flows, the fishing waka unearthed from Papanui Inlet on Otago Peninsula at the weekend might never have been discovered, Department of Conservation historic technical adviser Shar Briden said.

Vicki McIntyre is used to long commutes to work each day.