Ellie Constantine

Kerri Kohler has just experienced the biggest week of his life.

The decision for Althea Blakey to enter into a masters degree at the University of Otago was not an easy one.

What an 18-year-old should be entitled to do formed the basis of debate on the Clutha District Council's submission to the Alcohol Reform Bill recently.

The Christchurch property market is in a "holding pattern" and may take two years to return to normal, Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) director and Christchurch spokesman David Rankin says.

Rev Dr David Clark has spent enough time in and around Selwyn College to experience its old traditions, and watch new ones develop.

A lecturer was never something Dr Bryce Edwards expected to be. Least of all the lecturer of a first-year paper he studied, and in which he did not excel.

As thousands of "shiny, wide-eyed" first-year students descend on Dunedin in the pursuit of higher education and social enlightenment, Vanessa Reddy is well prepared for another year of entertaining them.

With tenders exceeding council budgets for the Balclutha Swimming Pool upgrade, the complex will remain open in the short term while plans are re-evaluated.

He has done his training. He has experience. But no-one wants to hire him because of his gender.

Seeing cyclists board the Taieri Gorge train on their way to the start of the Otago Central Rail Trail is not an uncommon sight.

Saint Valentine will be pleased to know the tradition of expressing love and affection remains a common activity for Dunedin lovers.

Ice cream is often a birthday party staple, and it was no different for ice cream giant Tip Top when it celebrated its 75th yesterday.

Transforming someone else's junk into a kiwiana treasure is a pastime and a passion for Cathie McCarthy.

A Tukutuku panel, woven from West Coast kiekie with the love of a husband and wife, now hangs on the wall of the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership in Dunedin as a symbol of its past and a sign of its future.

Having been without a youth worker since 2009, Fairfield's young people are about to be offered more support.

The long days of summer, when a maths problem was gathering enough coins for an ice cream, holding a pen became an unfamiliar concept and problem solving was helping pitch the tent, were left behind by thousands of children yesterday as they returned to classrooms for their first day back at school.