John Lewis

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.

Flower power is being used at Richard Hudson Kindergarten in Caversham to teach preschoolers about cultural diversity as part of International Race Relations Day.

Finding staff to teach curriculum areas where there are only a few pupils enrolled in a particular subject will be a problem of the past for Dunedin secondary schools.

Mathematics teachers at Kaikorai Valley College in Dunedin have come up with a clever way to make 900 go into 50.

A floral cup of tea certainly stimulated delegates' discussions during the national food and beverage conference in Dunedin yesterday.

There was no string quartet playing on the deck as it went down.

Hands off Harrop has enlisted the support of British history writer Duncan Fallowell to support its bid to stop the Dunedin City Council from building an atrium on Harrop St.

Speculation and expectation gave way to elation yesterday when Prime Minister Helen Clark announced the Government would grant up to $6 million towards the Otago Settlers Museum's expansion and refurbishment project.

Glass fell from a fourth-floor window in Dunedin's former chief post office yesterday, narrowly missing a pedestrian.

Janneke MacDonald was only 2 weeks old when she had her first flight, but it was a trip that changed her life.

In the good old days at Dunedin's Westpac Mayfair Theatre, a call from the stage for ‘‘Mr Sands to report to the dressing rooms'' signalled a potential disaster.