While the majority of schools in Christchurch are reopening this week, pupils from the city are continuing to enrol in southern schools, Ministry of Education figures show.
Proposed plans for stage two of the Caversham Valley Safety Improvement Project have been revealed by the New Zealand Transport Agency before a consultation meeting in Dunedin tomorrow night.
Jack Malcolm can not understand what all the fuss is about.
A small amount of soggy cereal is about the best thing Cory Sutherland has had to eat this week. Ever since the 20-year-old Dunedin father of two was seriously assaulted in Moray Pl early on...
Making public drunkenness an offence, banning repeat offenders from parts of Dunedin city, and reviewing alcohol licensing laws are just some of the options to be investigated by the Dunedin City Council in a bid to stamp out "repugnant" street violence.
Hundreds of commercial buildings in the South could be left without insurance as insurers toughen their stance on who they will cover in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake, a nationwide commercial building insurance broker says.
There have been a few strange things going on at John McGlashan College of late.
More than 1000 pupils fleeing Christchurch have now enrolled in Otago schools, and the number continues to grow.
The risk of George Street Normal School bursting at the seams has prompted the Ministry of Education to implement an enrolment scheme at for the first time in the school's 130-year history.
While a dusty cloud lingers over Christchurch, French pupils on a school exchange to Christchurch Girls' High School have found a silver lining.
"The flavour - there's no oyster in the world that tastes like a Bluff oyster. The cold water of Foveaux Strait - it creates something magic."
A BK117 helicopter hovering above the Regent Theatre had heads craning skyward yesterday as Helicopters Otago pilot David Gale placed large extractor fans on the roof of the redeveloped building.
Chef and television presenter Al Brown is going to talk fresh with anyone who will chat to him at the Otago Farmers Market in Dunedin on Saturday as he films another episode of his latest show Get Fresh.
Willow Gee is only 5, but in the past six months she has been enrolled in three schools.
Nearly 850 Christchurch school pupils have flooded into Otago schools following last week's quake, and the number is predicted to climb.
Helping Christchurch residents get back on their feet after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake last week has highlighted how unprepared for a natural disaster many New Zealanders are, Ravensbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer Ross Bryant says.
While the loss of life and heritage in Christchurch is nothing short of tragic, New York City Planning Department urban designer Skye Duncan says the loss of so many buildings in the CBD is a rare opportunity for the city to reinvent itself.
Dunedin police have disclosed what might be evidence relating to a vicious assault in Moray Pl late last month, in the hope someone can identify the offenders.
At a time when many Dunedin fire stations have staff volunteering in Christchurch earthquake operations, seven fires in eight hours in the student quarter stretched the city's firefighting resources to the limit at the weekend.
"I've lost everything I had left in life. I feel like a pauper. All I've got is my walking frame and the clothes I was wearing at the time."