More than 50 school pupils have already enrolled in Otago schools after fleeing the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch last Tuesday, and some principals believe enrolment numbers could skyrocket in the week ahead.
A change in roll caps allowing more pupils to attend two integrated secondary schools in Dunedin has left some state schools concerned about a drift of pupils away from their classrooms.
The foundations are set, and construction has begun on Dunedin's new $3.5 million Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Green Island.
Clinical psychologist and host of television's The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show Nigel Latta is warning parents to censor their children's viewing of the Christchurch earthquake media coverage.
Many Dunedin primary school pupils will don red and black clothing today in a mufti-day to raise money for Christchurch earthquake victims.
A 102-year-old woman is among 16 elderly people transferred to Dunedin from a Christchurch retirement home last night after it partially collapsed during the earthquake on Tuesday.
South Dunedin's schools are one step closer to knowing their fate, with Education Minister Anne Tolley presenting a revised list of options for a second round of consultation on their future.
Otago secondary school teachers will join their counterparts around the country in stopwork meetings with the Post Primary Teachers Association during the next three days to discuss future industrial action.
"It brings a tear to the eye - much like pepper spray does."
The suppliers of Bayfield High School's new uniforms have been given a disapproving look from staff for a late arrival for school this year.
The discovery of a wallet in Dunedin's Temple Gallery after it was broken into yesterday morning led to an art-loving American tourist who, it seems, just couldn't wait for the gallery to open.
Serious assaults are on the rise in Dunedin and police say the city is no longer as safe after dark as it once was.
Thirty years ago, a shaggy-haired David Pine was playing guitar with Sneaky Feelings, wearing jeans, scuffed shoes and woolly jumpers.
"Ignorance is no defence", and those who carry out work on historic buildings without the appropriate resource consents could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars or imprisoned, the Dunedin City Council has warned.
A Dunedin man who stole a 21-inch LCD television from The Warehouse in South Dunedin was caught red-handed when he returned to the store to steal an aerial to go with it, police say.
Despite there being no noticeable increase in the number of Dunedin pupils sitting New Zealand scholarship examinations in 2010, the city's secondary school pupils have recorded a significant increase in the number of scholarships gained.
Could Clyde's Maudie Wilson be New Zealand's oldest woman?
It was like a rolling rugby maul, except people were saying "sorry", "oops", and "I beg your pardon" when they bumped into each other.
Much water has flowed under bridges since the schools at Henley, Otokia and Taieri Ferry were closed.
Steve Theodore is a round-the-world sailor who has to enlist his wife's help every morning to tie his shoelaces.