Ellie Constantine

Walking the length of New Zealand for charity is not a new challenge, but doing it to get your name in the Guinness World Records book, surprisingly, is.

The holiday period allows Sims Pacific Metals staff to have a break, but it also ensures they will return to a pile of unwanted goods dumped outside its Dunedin yard.

As urbanisation threatens more and more pockets of nature, University of Otago PhD student Ed Waite wants to provide the tools for people to retain, and even restore, them.

At the mouth of the Waikouaiti River, just off State Highway 1, sits the coastal village of Karitane.

Two women helping promote Dunedin's biggest and best events and turning them into headline grabbers, can both say that who you know is a key to success in event management.

Whare Flat Folk Festival organisers were busy yesterday preparing for an influx of up to 1000 people over the next four days.

A desire to branch into another creative avenue resulted in artist Carissa Proffit dabbling in the art of Maori kite making.

The past four years have been good for Aliana McDaniel.

As Jinney Neale clung barefoot to rocks with a 5m swell lashing around her, Te Anau search and rescue member Stewart Burnby feared she would die.

Lifeguards are helping ensure people have a safe and happy holiday season with the start of daily patrols this week.

The Otago Farmers Christmas Market had all the elements of a good New Zealand Christmas yesterday - sunshine, entertainment and plenty of food.

Social agencies and police are warning people to take care with alcohol and themselves this festive season.

A Christmas without the trimmings will be the standard Corrections Department-issue meal eaten by those incarcerated or working in New Zealand prisons on Saturday.

After 10 years of making jewellery without compromise, Bob Wyber is making a concession to time and closing his Stuart St store in February. Ellie Constantine sits down for a chat with the Dunedin jeweller.

With Christmas upon us, parents will be dreaming of putting their feet up while their children ponder what will be awaiting them on Saturday morning.

Not-for-profit fair trade organisation Trade Aid has once again expanded its product range, this time to target the male consumer conscious of stylish details.

While many designers feel they need to leave Dunedin in order to make it big in the world, Tamsin Cooper cannot wait to return to the city she calls a "cultural hub".

Paintings full of sadness, hope, optimism and pessimism fill the foyer of Knox Church, Dunedin, in an exhibition by adults and children living in Gaza.

The New Zealand education system is one based on equality and access for all.