The jury is still out on whether appealing to a child's creativity will solve Otago's recessional woes, but as far as directors of NAMCAP NZ are concerned, it's a sure winner.
While toilet paper has traditionally only had one use, year 10 art pupils at Columba College have found another.
"Health services in New Zealand still seem to be an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff rather than preventative."
Otago residents will be some of the biggest winners in the country when Air New Zealand slashes the cost of domestic flights in and out of Dunedin and Queenstown International Airports by up to 42%.
The families of murder victims Sophie Elliott and Michael Hutchings are pleased the scales of justice are finally beginning to tilt back towards favouring the families of homicide victims, but say there is still a long way to go.
Having your artworks described as "creepy", "peculiar" and full of "flowing gooeyness" may sound unflattering, but they are qualities which won three Dunedin artists premier prizes at the prestigious Portage Ceramic Awards in Auckland last night.
In a former life, it was a lawn mower. Now, it's a grass-shredding speed machine.
Dust off your lederhosen and clear your vocal cords - a little bit of Bavaria is about to hit Outram this weekend.
As world leaders contemplate ways of countering climate change, seven pupils from Logan Park High School, John McGlashan College and Kaikorai Valley College are taking their own action.
Dunedin police have praised the considerate behaviour of drivers around schools as pupils head back to school for the fourth term.
A university of Otago early childhood education lecturer and researcher has backed Australian recommendations to ban children under the age of 2 from watching television.
"If I was a drug dealer, this decision would be Christmas to me. The Government hasn't thought this one through."
A large piece of Dunedin's heritage is lighting up the lives of audiences and performers at the Mayfair Theatre after it was returned recently to the city.
Members of the Otago University Students Association voted overwhelmingly in favour of continuing compulsory membership to the student organisation, during a meeting plagued with interruptions from members of a political youth movement.
While many South Dunedin residents are up in arms about noise from aircraft doing late night flight training in the area, pilots have showed little tolerance of angry residents shining laser beams into pilots' cockpits as they fly.
The picture looks grim at Art Care and Conservation Dunedin as managers struggle to find the owners of nearly 50 restored, but unclaimed, artworks.
Thirteen more cards get dealt and as Sam Baily and Glenn Coutts fan them out, a steely gaze sets in their eyes and the game is on.
A University of Otago music student is a step closer to revolutionising music education after winning a $2000 AMP Regional Scholarship.
An educator said to have inspired teachers and principals throughout Otago in a career spanning 37 years has been awarded a prestigious fellowship for his "outstanding" contribution to education.
Two Otago schools were shocked to see their names on an Education Review Office "roll of shame" for charging parents more than they were legally obliged to pay.