Dunedin Principals are concerned about the future of the healthy lunches in schools programme after leaked documents revealed proposed cuts to it in a Ministry of Education restructure.
The Dunedin City Council is confident the new George St playground will be safe and robust enough to withstand anything - including inebriated students.
Car doors, loads of bottles, used needles and other drug paraphernalia were among the loads of rubbish picked up by more than 150 volunteers at Dunedin’s Smaills Beach on Saturday.
New Zealand First would be out of Parliament, and Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori would have enough seats to form a government together, according to the latest 1 News Verian Poll.
As cellphones are banned in classrooms across New Zealand, pupils at a Dunedin secondary school say it is nice to be able to learn without distractions.
The unusual behaviour of an alleged thief caught on camera stealing 72kg of honey from a Central Otago stall has prompted speculation he might have been after it for medicinal purposes.
Tasha Roberts, of Roberts Orchard, has lots of raking work to do as leaves continue to fall from cherry trees in the family orchard in Earnscleugh yesterday.
New Zealand First would be out of Parliament, and Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori would have enough seats to form a government together, according to the latest 1 News Verian Poll.
New education priorities announced by the government today will put "ambition, achievement and outcomes" at the heart of the system, the education minister says.
Inflation is not falling as quickly as economists expect, with one high-profile consultancy picking the next interest rate cut might not come until 2025.
Spring in Rome — it’s warm enough to sit outside cafes and bars, and visiting before the crowds arrive in summer means the queues are short, Sarah Turner writes.
The Canterbury A&P Association's board is keeping quiet after it emerged one of its own received $75,000 to help secure a $5m bailout deal with a council.
About 500 trail runners will be greeted at the finishing line of the Skedaddle race this weekend by Island Hills Station landowners Dan and Mandy Shand.
US President Joe Biden delivered an election-year roast at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner as protesters outside criticized his support for Israel.
New rules will force electric and hybrid vehicles to make sounds at low speeds next year, in a move that could save the lives of Australian pedestrians.
There was some guffawing and derision back in March when former National Party leader Simon Bridges was appointed as chairman of Waka Kotahi, the New Zealand Transport Agency.
I’m not much of a churchgoer but I always enjoy a yarn with Father Pat who has a parish in Southland. He’s a practical priest — really down-to-earth. Looks after his flock and backpedals a bit on...