The board of trustees at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti has taken another step towards a possible move to the former High Street School in Dunedin.
Initiatives aimed at providing support for Dunedin secondary schools in the wake of the Phoenix Centre closure are too slow in coming to fruition, and are unlikely to be as good, a secondary school principal believes.
Retirement is not a word that fits easily into the vocabulary of many teachers. Gary Crombie is one such.
It is usually considered bad etiquette to air your dirty laundry in public.
The upper Otago Harbour could become home to a series of man-made islands - one as large as 30ha - if a Dunedin group gets its way.
Construction delays have forced North East Valley Normal School to postpone its 160th anniversary celebrations this week.
The future of Hillside Workshops could be in doubt if indications KiwiRail intends to buy more than 2000 railway wagons from China turn out to be true.
If you won $34 million in Lotto's Powerball jackpot tonight, could you spend it in a week?
Pupils at King's High School in Dunedin will forgo $13,500 of funds raised for special projects this year and instead give the money to their brothers at Shirley Boys' High School in Christchurch.
A burst boiler pipe spewed thousands of litres of water into the Otago Settlers Museum new collections store yesterday, but a major catastrophe was averted.
There was no point taking a sickbag. If Ray Wilson was going to be carsick during his high-speed ride with 1981 World Rally champion and four-time Paris to Dakar Rally winner Ari Vatanen, his helmet and G-forces would prevent him from using it.
Sometimes, something lost is not worth retrieving. An Oamaru woman ended up with her arm trapped in a fence on Frome St, Oamaru, last night after dropping a cellphone between a fence and a power box.
Seldom do a couple of $10 notes add up to more than $20. But yesterday, a rare pair of Reserve Bank of New Zealand $10 notes with identical serial numbers went under the hammer at Hayward's Auction House in Dunedin and fetched $500.
The forecast for tonight is for showers of spit indoors, courtesy of one of the United Kingdom's top human beatboxers.
Boris the teenage turtle might only be the size of a small dinner plate, but he enjoys chasing dogs, and has quite a record for escaping custody - albeit, not exactly at a sprint.
Wim van Schie still laughs when he recalls his first attempts at speaking English.
Alleged "aggressive and destructive" behaviour on a domestic flight has resulted in a 26-year-old Wellington woman being arrested by Dunedin police.
Until recently, the sky was literally the limit for young scouts exploring Otago's land and seascapes.
Almost half of the year 13 pupils at 13 Otago schools failed to achieve a level 3 NCEA qualification in 2010.
It was much like any other conference - community leaders with laptops under one arm, conference material under the other.