John Lewis

Three Otago secondary-school pupils will be singing the praises of the region while touring Europe, China and the United States.

John McGlashan College in Dunedin is poised to send its year-9 pupils into an era of high-tech paper-less education.

Zadok the Priest was there.

Closure of Dunedin's second-oldest school is to be considered by its board of trustees and the surrounding community.

Construction workers at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium spent much of yesterday retrieving dozens of sheets of iron from the Leith Stream after they were blown off the south stand in gale force winds on Sunday.

"Doing the simple things in life, like going to the bank or the store, were very difficult for me. I was even scared to answer the phone."

John Foster is one of the lucky ones.

Here's a warm, fluffy story to get your claws into.

The consent hearing for Port Otago's Project Next Generation harbour-dredging application may be put on hold for up to six months because of the number of submissions to the application.

Otago secondary school teachers may take strike action next month and have not ruled out further action after their union, the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA), voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government's latest pay offer.

A 33-year-old woman was taken to Dunedin Hospital in handcuffs last night as emergency services worked to cut free her 14-year-old daughter from their mangled car following a spectacular high-speed crash.

In past lives, they were a labourer, an administrative officer, an intelligence analyst, a farmer and a barrister. Today, they are the five most powerful people in Australian politics and are being wooed by that country's Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.

Secondary schools in Dunedin say the University of Otago's new criteria for selecting pupils to study at the institution next year may be one of the best things to have happened to education for many years.

Police have charged four people with assault after a "brutal" attack in Dunedin yesterday, during which one teenager was bashed with a skateboard and another with a hammer.

Many of those asking questions at an Otago Energy Research Centre forum on lignite mining in the southern region may have left feeling none the wiser last night.