A Mosgiel principal hopes to open important career "windows" for her pupils later this month when she visits China as part of a New Zealand secondary school leaders' delegation.
They travelled 150m down one of the most visited streets in New Zealand, but Cadbury's Giant Jaffas are "yummy" and it was difficult to stop children from collecting them out of the gutters and eating them following the Cadbury Jaffa Race on Baldwin St yesterday.
Armed police swooped on five Dunedin gang homes yesterday, as part of ongoing investigations into two recent armed robberies in the city.
Dunedin police are amazed no-one was killed during an impromptu car race along Cumberland St which ended with one car crashing into a power pole near the University of Otago.
A sea lion hiding in the bushes near the Otago University Rowing Club has been alarming walkers and cyclists, prompting the Department of Conservation to warn Dunedin residents of the large number of sea lions in the harbour.
House buyers looking for a bargain home development project could be in luck.
"Tedious" doesn't even begin to describe what it is like to peel tiny numbered stickers off a backing sheet and then stick them individually, by hand, on to 50,000 Cadbury Giant Jaffas.
Humpty, Big Ted, Little Ted, Manu, Jemima, Phil Keoghan, Danny Watson and Ian Taylor are just some of the television personalities who have had their lives illuminated on screen by the Pollux.
Male teachers are not essential if research involving Otago school pupils is anything to go by.
A computer program developed by two Otago Polytechnic students as part of their degree has been found to have real-world applications and has been picked up for use by the Dunedin City Council.
A concern for the future of science education in New Zealand primary schools has prompted the University of Otago's education and applied sciences departments to team up and create teaching tools aimed at building "a lexicon" of science knowledge.
The Dunedin City Council has criticised the draft Otago Regional Land Transport Strategy for not being aspirational enough during submission hearings at the Otago Regional Council yesterday.
Bidding on a Dunedin property formerly owned by convicted fraudster Michael Swann, failed to reach half of its government valuation during a public auction.
Penelope Couper, Imogen Davis and Dannielle Hall plan to make their one act play a wonder.
Just days after the Ministry of Education's announcement that Forbury School will close, serious interest is already being shown in its purchase.
For the second successive year, Lawrence boar and stag hunters (from left) Jim Crawford, Jock Martin, Darrell Cornish and Dave Brydie have won the Mornington Tavern Boar and Stag Hunt.
Macandrew Intermediate principal Whetu Cormick has taken exception to Labour MP Clare Curran's suggestion that the Ministry of Education's plans to close Forbury and College Street Schools may disadvantage pupils.
To the naked eye, much has changed about Port Chalmers in the past century.
A Dunedin-based film-maker is one of five in New Zealand who will have their works broadcast on the BBC's Knowledge channel this year.
Floating an idea past the right people has helped a 12-year-old Port Chalmers boy come up with a godsend for surfers in Dunedin.