The principal of a Dunedin school under investigation for its unusually high turnover of staff has resigned her post.
Dunedin police have met city bank managers to discuss the "brazen'' unarmed man who has been involved in a spate of bank robberies during the past five months.
The days of telling rough and ready war stories around the committee table may be over for members of the New Zealand Scottish Regiment Ex-members Association.
When Hannah Gray was a child, she did not play with Barbie dolls like most girls her age. She preferred Action Man dolls because they could do ``better stuff''.
"Extraordinary" population growth has prompted Catholic schools in Milton, Wanaka and Queenstown to apply to the Ministry of Education to have their roll caps raised by up to 47% this year.
Search teams and dogs will continue searching the Mackenzie hut area for missing Israeli tramper Liat Okin, but Queenstown police say the lack of evidence showing she has been there is frustrating.
A University of Canterbury criminologist says the robber who police believe has struck eight banks in five months in the Dunedin area is beginning to push his luck and would be wise to leave town.
School uniforms gave way to gumboots and jackets at Whare Flat yesterday when 76 pupils from Otago secondary schools were herded into a woolshed for the 2008 Outstanding in the Field farm experience day.
For the first time in 25 years, a Dunedin-made drama is being filmed in Dunedin to be screened on New Zealand television, thanks to a technological advancement in the production process.
Aparima College in Riverton has become the first secondary school in Southland to join the New Zealand Youth Apprenticeships programme following expansions to the pilot by the Ministry of Education.
The number of Otago secondary schools that fail to meet the national average pass rate in level 3 of the national certificate of educational achievement (NCEA) is continuing to grow.
Dunedin's conservative attitude towards nudity has been blamed for a lack of blokes willing to get naked on stage for an up-coming production of The Full Monty.
A decade ago, the words on the lips of many musicians in Dunedin believed orchestras, pipe bands, brass bands and choirs were dying art forms.
Dunedin secondary principals approached by the Otago Daily Times have welcomed the Ministry of Education's call for public consultation on how the Schools Plus initiative will be implemented, despite criticism from opposition MPs.
Watching Eleanor Ainge Roy get blindfolded, shackled, choked with water and called a whore in the University of Otago Student Union building in Dunedin yesterday brought the reality of torture and interrogation methods home for many students.
Dunedin police have developed a contingency plan ahead of the arrival of Rainbow Warrior today to deal with potential problems like those reported at Port Lyttelton this week.
An overnight ram-raid at Knox Pharmacy by burglars seeking pseudoephedrene tablets has been described as a ‘‘cavalier act'' by Dunedin police.
For David and Grace Telfer, there's nothing like the smell of hay and horse manure.
A Dunedin school principal has called for government action to rescue primary education in Dunedin in the wake of declining school rolls.
A Dunedin school principal has called for government action to rescue primary education in Dunedin in the wake of declining school rolls.