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The weather has rained on Southland Boys' High School's victory parade. Invercargill was due to celebrate SBHS's National First XV Championship...

Four teenagers have been killed in car crash after the ute they were in crashed into a concrete truck in the rain. All four went to the same school and three of them lived within a couple of streets of  each other.

The head of the school where four teenage former pupils were killed in a horrific crash on Friday said they had had a life of potential ahead of them.  Sim

A family friend of one of four teenagers killed in an Invercargill crash on Friday says she is heartbroken by the tragedy.  Police have named the four boys

A constant trickle of visitors came and went from the sombre family homes of the four teenagers killed in an Invercargill crash as their loved ones awaited

Two out of five teachers at a West Otago school remain unvaccinated days out from the deadline to get the jab, and replacement staff are scarce if they are forced to leave.

Two out of five teachers at a West Otago school remain unvaccinated days out from the deadline to get the jab, and replacement staff are scarce if they are forced to leave.

The school defines bullying as behaviour that continues when the person is asked to stop. He encourages parents and caregivers to speak to their children about bullying, check social media posts, remove communications devices from bedrooms at bedtime and talk to the school if there is a problem. Southland Boys’ High School rector Simon Coe said the school, “along with all other schools”, was on the frontline of social media issues. Social media had changed the communication landscape...

Financial Ombudsman Service sees half a million new enquiries in a year

Three former Southland Boys High assistant principals have been awarded a payout. Following the appointment of rector Simon Coe in 2017 it was decided that instead of four assistant principals, he wanted a single associate rector, with a further three management positions below that. The trio complained to the Employment Relations Authority that they had been unfairly dismissed as a result of the process. ERA has since released a decision where it agreed that their dismissals were unjustifie...