The steam engine supposed to be the centre-piece of Dunedin's Steam Festival has been delayed again - this time because Christchurch rail staff did not attach it to the train booked to bring it south.
A Dunedin relief teacher says he and the administration staff at the schools he works at have spent almost as much time trying to sort out his pay than he has spent doing his job.
South Dunedin is about to host a secondary boarding school for senior Muslim boys, in a former Roman Catholic school.
It is not often that bullets are designed for comfort.
If you could understand Muhammad Sadik's email, with its incorrect grammar and spelling, you might be a little afraid.
Constantly feeding and nurturing its website as if it was a living and dynamic entity has won Tourism Dunedin a major award at the 2012 eTourism conference in Auckland.
Many of the issues plaguing the Ministry of Education's new Novopay payroll system appear to have been resolved, but Otago primary principals say the system is still far from error-free.
He ain't from these parts, and many Dunedin folk will have no idea who he is. But American rodeo celebrity Kedo Olson is well known in rodeo circles and anyone wearing cowboy boots will be delighted he is coming to the city to announce at the Dunedin International Rodeo at Forsyth Barr Stadium on November 17.
A Christchurch businesswoman who came to Dunedin to escape the Canterbury earthquakes says life in Dunedin is almost as frustrating.
The number of people being prosecuted for trespassing at the Dunedin Public Library appears to have nearly doubled in the past year.
A short story based on a child's experiences growing up in Central Otago and working after school in her father's shop has won former Otago author Julie Helean the Katherine Mansfield Award at the BNZ Literary Awards.
After nearly 50 years in the teaching profession, and despite her love of working with children, Amana Christian School founder and principal Roslyn King says it is time to call it a day.
Not only did Forsyth Barr Stadium get the thumbs up from the All Blacks, the rugby test against the Springboks on Saturday was great for the Dunedin retail and hospitality sector, with many tills ringing red-hot over the weekend.
Secondary schools around the country are threatening legal action over the Ministry of Education's new payroll system, which schools say is riddled with errors.
A Dunedin secondary school has become the first in Otago to approve a new "cyber citizen agreement", which could see pupils stood down or suspended if they misused the school's computer equipment.
It seems Otago Girls' High School has the luck of the Irish after again winning an award at the 2012 Rodney Walshe Ireland Essay Competition.
Around the world in 60 minutes - beat that Phileas Fogg.
As many as one in 20 Dunedin house sales are falling through at the last hurdle because insurance companies are declining to insure houses built before 1935.
If life as a sculptor is supposed to be more difficult after one of your hands has been cut off, no-one told Gavin Wilson. The 43-year-old had his right hand severed in an industrial accident in...
Two "foolish" Taieri teenagers sparked a major police search and rescue operation yesterday when they set off down the Taieri River in a cheap inflatable dinghy without wetsuits or life jackets.
