John Lewis

Rather than roll out the red carpet and spend large quantities of money on premises to attract Rugby World Cup visitors, Dunedin's hospitality establishments are being advised to focus on the basics.

The Fairfield Scout group may be forced to fold after more than 40 years because they cannot find a leader.

Milton is about to become home to what might well be one of New Zealand's highest-producing sawmills, as part of a multimillion-dollar expansion of Southern Cross Forest Products Ltd.

Is it the fabled Fiordland moose? Or is it just another deer?

What turns a medical scientist at Southern Community Laboratories into an early childhood education provider?

Portraits of early pioneers on display at the Otago Settlers Museum will be preserved online later this year, following a substantial donation from the Otago Settlers Association.

Both Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela promoted the phrase "be the change if you wish to see the change" - and these words of wisdom were also the theme for Catholic Schools' Day yesterday.

Prime Minister John Key's commissioning of urgent research to better understand the issues which can make adolescence a "powder keg" of bad decisions and risky behaviour has been welcomed by a University of Otago psychologist and a parenting counsellor.

The co-ordinator of a new programme at Otago Community Hospice, in Dunedin, hopes to ease the fear and uncertainty many people feel when a loved one is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Here lies the dilemma. Do you park illegally outside the school gates for seven seconds to allow your 10-year-old daughter to jump in the car after school? Or do you keep on driving and let your 10-year-old daughter chase you around the block until you find a legitimate car park?

It is a map that should look vaguely familiar to the people of Warrington.

Less than a week after being honoured at Britain's classical music awards, New Zealand opera diva Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has confirmed she will give a recital in Dunedin in October as part of the Otago Festival of the Arts.

KiwiRail's Hillside workshops may have won a $40 million contract to deliver carriages to Tranz Scenic, but it has not stopped Government, Dunedin City Council and Dunedin business representatives from moving ahead with plans to win at least some construction work on the $500 million tender for Auckland's trains.

"I picked up Chinese by accident," Columba College pupil Sarah Agyeman says.

The view from near the top of the world is humbling - not because of the vista but for the way of life of the people who live there.

The Otago Parents of Deaf Children Association is calling on the Ministry of Education for help as funding for a deaf resource person in the region looks set to dry up next month.

He only has three legs and one eye, he likes to listen to country music, he's quite tall and slim, he smells really bad, he gets up early in the morning and hasn't had any coffee, he's always getting up to mischief but he's quite good looking.