Four medals and two major awards at the New Zealand aerobic and dance championships in Wellington has left hip hop and aerobics dancers in South Dunedin popping with excitement.
Comparing exchange rates and learning to say "this food looks good" in Japanese, are not the typical activities of primary school pupils.
"We're not just hicks from the sticks." East Otago High School pupil Kieran Ireland believes Palmerston has been well and truly highlighted on the map after he and two of his fellow pupils won awards at the New Zealand Maatangi Whenua Year 11 Geography Competition in Wellington.
By day, Jeremy Mackay installs fire alarms and sprinkler systems in Dunedin buildings.
Who says crime does not pay?
While near-hurricane force winds wreaked havoc in Otago on Sunday, the cost of the damage was yet to be determined.
Winds gusting up to 172kmh created havoc for emergency services in Dunedin and the Taieri yesterday afternoon.
A heavily intoxicated 38-year-old Dunedin woman was given a rude awakening by Dunedin police after she fell asleep at the wheel of her car at an Andersons Bay service station.
An Otago Corrections Facility employee is questioning whether he has been deliberately targeted by gang associates after his house in Milton was damaged in a suspicious fire yesterday.
National certificate of educational achievement (NCEA) exams begin in less than two months, and Otago secondary school teachers are concerned about the effect of planned strike action on their pupils' preparations for the exams.
The Harlem shake, heel toe, crip walk, cupid shuffle, glide and popping are all manoeuvres perfected by two Dunedin hip-hop teams competing in the New Zealand aerobic and dance championships this weekend.
Whenever Jess McMillan rides Johnny on the roads around Mosgiel, her mother is never far behind in the car, following with hazard lights blinking.
The University of Otago's new Centre for Educational Leadership and Administration (CELA) will be officially launched next week with symposiums in Dunedin and Invercargill.
Building stools, taking extended lunch breaks, and teachers shouting you lunch instead of shouting at you - yesterday was like a school day in the twilight zone for Kaikorai Valley College pupil Nathaniel McMonagle (13).
For $US100,000, you too could own a Martin Jetpack to fly yourself to work.
"When you kick teachers, you kick the kids." The slogan, being shaken on a placard, made the Post Primary Teachers' Association's message loud and clear during strike action in Dunedin yesterday.
"It's damaged a lot of people and it's going to go on for a lot longer yet.
Education Minister Anne Tolley is adamant there will be no moratorium on implementation of the National Standards while a newly formed advisory group discusses perceived flaws in the initiative.
Secondary teachers from around Otago will march on the streets of Dunedin today as pay negotiators for the Post Primary Teachers' Association and the Ministry of Education fail to find a way forward.
Minister of Education Anne Tolley has announced she will establish a National Standards advisory group.