Festive spirit is strong in the southern region in the build-up to Christmas Day, with electronic transactions in the Otago region increasing by 5.4%, and 6.3% in Southland during the first 20 days of December this year, compared with 2010.
Leyland Leopard 194 will cruise the streets of Dunedin once again this Christmas.
Clarke Johnstone has the jump on most of the world's horse riders, now that he is the reigning Federation Equestre Internationale Eventing World Cup champion.
The family of a Green Island woman is distraught after her gravesite was damaged at the weekend, allegedly by a Dunedin City Council cemetery caretaker.
The Ministry of Education is considering appointing a commissioner to govern Rotary Park School, in the wake of the decimation of the school's board of trustees.
Winning a national German film-making competition when you are only 14 is good. But beating university film-making students can only be described as "wunderbar".
Another year is done and dusted and the holiday rush begins for Flag Swamp School pupils (from left) Nik Turner (9), Nickalous Paul (5), Freedom Thomas-Martin (8), school visitor Alice Smith (3), Melissa Laxon (10), Lucy Jackson (5), Kylie Weir (7), Sheree Thomas-Martin (7), Machela Paul (6), school visitor Chloe Greer (11), Daymon Smillie (11), Preschool Club member Baillie Laxon (4), Caitlin Edge (10), Gina Tutty (11), Kelly-Ann Weir (11, obscured) and Byron Greer (9). Waving goodbye are principal Murray Oats and his wife, Wendy.
Construction of a $25 million junction on State Highway 1 at Lookout Point could begin as early as July next year, the New Zealand Transport Agency said.
Dunedin police are disappointed after issuing 80 infringement notices in seven hours yesterday during a campaign to cut speed in the city's residential areas.
An outbreak of E-coli in the water supply at the Deep Cove Outdoor Education Trust's school hostel has prompted the trust to employ sanitation experts and introduce boil-water notices.
As the bell tolled at 3pm, ending the day's lessons at Forbury School for the last time, there was a strange air of jubilation mixed with despair.
Rotary Park School has been described as a "sinking ship", and all but one of its six board of trustees members have resigned over growing concerns about the return of the school's principal, Carmel Casey.
Increasing rolls, space constraints and the lure of possible cost reductions have prompted the Catholic Education Office to investigate moving its St Mary's School in Mosgiel to a new site.
You can almost hear city retailers singing Gaudeamus igitur ("Let us rejoice").
Three science and technology secondary school pupils from the Southern region won international travel prizes and big cash scholarships at the Genesis Energy Realise the Dream Awards at Government House, in Wellington, last night.
Several Dunedin secondary schools will create additional year 9 classes next year, following an unexpected surge in junior enrolments.
A musical theatre summer school planned for young performers in Dunedin during the school holidays has been cancelled because of lack of interest.
The Government's proposal to introduce charter schools is nothing more than an opportunity for a school to "cherry-pick pupils and usher low-achieving students out the door", a teachers' leader says.
In a move resembling the naming of Forsyth Barr Stadium, the Dunedin City Council is exploring the possibility of financial gain from Dunedin business naming rights on rooms in the upgraded Municipal Chambers and Dunedin Centre.
A New Zealander now living in Australia was escorted from a cruise ship by Dunedin police and Customs officers after the ship berthed in Port Chalmers yesterday.
