A dream to turn Otago poet Hone Tuwhare's Kaka Point house into a retreat for artists and writers in residence is a step closer to reality as supportive old friends and community organisations emerge from the woodwork.
The Education Minister is taking a close look at an independent survey carried out by Dunedin accounting firm Polson Higgs, which has found schools have "inadequate" operational funding and are being propped up by locally-raised funds.
Pupils from Otago Boys High School and Otago Girls High School received intensive military-styled leadership training this week, the first as part of a new initiative created by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
The family of one of "Otago's greatest adopted sons", poet Hone Tuwhare, is worried their father's Kaka Point home may be lost to future generations of artists and writers as its mortgage comes due.
It is not often three blokes could be considered a luxury.
Secondary school teachers from around Otago became students again for a day during a series of seminars about "thinking" at Otago Girls High School on Friday.
"The whole place just stank of bonfire. The smell will haunt me for a long time."
An 18-year-old youth was arrested in Oamaru last night after allegedly robbing a Japanese tourist at gunpoint in broad daylight.
Temporary job vacancies in Otago and Southland have increased in the past three months, despite economic conditions affecting several large employers in the region.
A group of men offering to cut down trees and then charge thousands of dollars for the service may now be operating in the Dunedin area, a Fairfield resident warns.
A Czech Republic tourist was airlifted to hospital after a boulder "the size of a washing machine" fell on him at Fox Glacier yesterday.
Otago Museum management have rejected allegations large numbers of tropical butterflies have escaped from their tropical forest enclosure since it opened in 2007.
A member of the public fought valiantly to resuscitate a 29-year-old cyclist last night who died after his mountain bike hit a parked four-wheel-drive vehicle in Barr St, Kenmure.
As the Regional Job Summit begins in Dunedin this afternoon, Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran is calling for the Government to urgently invest in insulating up to 40,000 Dunedin homes to help stimulate the local economy.
Otago Polytechnic art students have a place to call home now the $3 million, twin-level annex to the School of Art has been completed and officially opened.
Home-based early childhood education services are experiencing a boom, especially in the South, with a 50% increase in enrolments across the country in the past year, one of New Zealand's leading providers says.
The Otago Secondary Principals Association says Otago schools are proactive in dealing with bullying despite a top-level inquiry by the Childrens Commissioner which found some New Zealand schools are not.
A little piece of Venice will be sliced off and maybe washed away with a cup of coffee about 3pm today, when the buyer of Quinn Shaw's Italian cake arrives home from the St Clair School fair, in Dunedin.
Five Otago primary schools struggling to house their pupils will receive a share of $1.158 million from the Government for building expansions to help them cope with their growing rolls.
Studying the news has put three former Logan Park High School media studies pupils in the news.
