John Lewis

"I never thought I would win something like this, coming from where I come from."

The days of showering in the dark, dingy changing rooms at the Kings High School gym with a chilly southerly gale blowing through will soon be over.

Anti-stadium sentiments spray-painted over a school mural on the Forsyth Barr Stadium construction site fence have left many at Ravensbourne School and the Dunedin City Council "horrified".

More than half of Otago's Year 13 secondary school pupils leave school without university entrance qualifications - a statistic Education Minister Anne Tolley says adds ammunition to her establishment of national standards.

Pupils at Columba College have always known their commerce teacher is an enterprising woman, but soon Suzanne Bishop will have an accolade to prove it.

Few pupils could appreciate what it would be like to walk 7km along a muddy path to get to school in a draughty farmer's barn 150 years ago.

St Hildas Collegiate pupils hope a cookbook will make their dream of a new school canteen a reality.

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.

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.