Prominent campaigner for political truth and integrity, and former oilfield executive Ian Crane, will be in Dunedin to discuss potential threats to the production of natural, herbal and homeopathic medicines.
Do synthesizers dream of electric sheep? It is a question few people have pondered seriously.
Julian Huitfeldt says he is a sucker for a good cause.
Following months of consultation, the Ministry of Education has denied permission for Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti to move premises to the former High Street School in Dunedin.
Less than 24 hours from the first NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examinations of 2011, 6358 Otago secondary school pupils are cramming in every scrap of information they can.
It's hard to tell whether it was irony or just bad timing that several groups of university students were happily playing touch rugby next to the venue where a former All Blacks captain, a sports academic and a religious rugby fan were discussing the impending doom of New Zealand's great game.
The merger of Caversham, College Street and Calton Hill schools has hit a snag, with the revelation the redevelopment of the Caversham site will not be finished in time for the start of term one next year.
Prof John Pratt has spent six months of the past five years behind bars, all in the name of research.
Ben Sincock has barely begun his job as the new principal of the merged Caversham, College Street and Calton Hill Schools, and already he is taking aim at the Ministry of Education over its handling of the merger process.
Education Minister Anne Tolley stressed no final decision has been made on the fate of Paerau School, despite her having sent a letter to the school's board of trustees recommending it be closed.
When an Oamaru mother visited her local supermarket to do some grocery shopping with her children, little did she know the sign on the front window saying Lotto's "Big Winner Sold Here" was referring to her.
Tokomairiro High School in Milton has been severely criticised by the Education Review Office (ERO) for failing to engage pupils in learning and its ineffectual procedures for dealing with badly behaved pupils in class.
Finding a place to call home can be a tricky business for tertiary students, but two Otago Polytechnic computer whizzes hope to ease the burden as the great migration and annual student flat hunt begins.
Parents, staff and pupils at Te Kura Kaupapa o Otepoti will learn the fate of their school next week when the Ministry of Education announces its decision on whether the kura can relocate to the former High Street School premises in Dunedin.
A name for the new school created by the merger of Macandrew Intermediate and Forbury School will be revealed next week, the Ministry of Education says.
The first rake of railway carriages to be designed and built in New Zealand since 1941 rolled out of Hillside workshops in Dunedin yesterday, bound for Christchurch.
Three days after heavy rain hit coastal Otago, Mt Cargill Rd remains closed because of a major landslip.
Dunedin voluntary euthanasia groups are in need of resuscitation after only three people turned up to a recent meeting, a Dunedin woman says.
Dunedin police have issued a warning after a surge in the number of cars being stolen and burnt in recent weeks.
Anti-capitalism protesters are yet to decide how long they intend to stay in the Octagon, but the Dunedin City Council is going out of its way not to put pressure on the group to respond to its request for a timeline.