A Dunedin travel agency owner has leapt to the defence of Dunedin International Airport, saying Air New Zealand has been treating Dunedin like "a cash cow" for years, and the airline needs to take the airport's increased landing charges on the chin.
King's High School in Dunedin has achieved the highest NCEA pass rates for state boys' schools in the country, New Zealand Qualifications Authority statistics show.
The hazard of Duke is that studying at the university is very expensive.
These days, winning the New Zealand Marching Championships is only half the battle - fielding a team to compete is the other half.
Three-quarters of their lives have been spent living in foreign countries, but for two Afghan sisters now living in Dunedin, Afghanistan will always be home.
Nearly 70 years after his death, Edward Walden's work lives on in Dunedin.
Mosgiel's Amana Christian School plans to expand next year into secondary school education.
Otago secondary schools will be at the forefront of changes to NCEA Level 2 standards realignments next week.
Things most people would take for granted are counted as major improvements in Shania Hutton's world.
Dunedin police and a Balclutha transport company are shocked at the stupidity of two people who tried to hitch a ride by standing on the rear bumper bar of a truck bound for Timaru.
Several inner-city schools have raised concerns about parties for young teens being held at some commercial nightclubs in Dunedin.
For the past four years, Pamela Brown has been so wrapped up in her master of fine arts studies at Otago Polytechnic, she decided to swathe her house in wallpaper - inside and outside.
During tough fiscal times, New Zealand schools appear to be refining their budgets by hiring increasing numbers of teachers on short-term contracts.
There were nods of understanding from some parents, and some moments of epiphany for others, when leading international educator Joseph Driessen gave tips for parenting teenagers.
After the Dunedin City Council's decision to discontinue its support for the tertiary ride-share scheme, the council's planning and environment committee has given the thumbs up to a website-based alternative.
A planned upgrade of Carisbrook School continues to be delayed as the Ministry of Education urgently considers how to squeeze a significantly higher number of pupils than was originally anticipated on to the site.
Shania Hutton will wing her way to Auckland this morning to begin her physical rehabilitation and speech therapy.
An abundance of sunshine has helped Otago's commercial accommodation providers beat a nationwide slump in visitor numbers, recording their best January occupancy rate since statistics began in 1996.
With energy to burn, about 500 preschoolers celebrated Playcentre Awareness Week in ways only preschoolers can - by eating non-toxic paint, mashing modelling dough into their clothes, and collecting grass stains as they chased each other around the fields.
Several seminars about research into treatment for neurological diseases marked the start of International Brain Week at the University of Otago St David Lecture Theatre Complex on Saturday.