As you empty the contents of your stocking, frantically tear your house apart in search of spare batteries for your newest gadget or tuck into your Christmas dinner, spare a though for those hard at work on Christmas Day.
As part of a 12-week collaborative project, Port Chalmers Design Store and six Otago Polytechnic second-year students have launched five new design products.
In a New Zealand first, Dunedin's Pigville Productions has just had its sitcom, The Project, picked up by a New Zealand Internet TV network.
Otago Fertility Services is experiencing a sperm drought - with only half the number of donors it needs.
All Anterea Matana and his wife Mina want for Christmas this year are jobs.
There are two weeks left to take part in a Department of Conservation survey about improvements for the Silver Peaks area.
More than 18 months ago, Bree McKenzie attended a fundraiser which changed her life.
A Dunedin father whose child was a victim of a sex offender is urging parents in Waverley to be vigilant following the man's release from prison.
The Te Moananui family are finally getting a home they can call their own, thanks to a little bit of humanity.
Rumours that Corstorphine School will close its doors at the end of the year are untrue, the school's board of trustees chairwoman says.
Heriot Plunket will present ‘‘A Night with Eric Rush'' at the Heriot Community Centre on August 14.
Proud family, friends and peers packed the Timaru Seido Karate dojo on Saturday to watch Cheyanne Martin, of Timaru, receive her junior black belt.
The Dunedin City Council is trying to improve friendships between cyclists and walkers by running a Bells on Bikes campaign.
A contingent of young Dunedin women recently travelled to Christchurch to make their voices heard regarding the plight of child soldiers in Uganda.
The Dunedin Night Shelter is in urgent need of volunteers to provide shelter seven nights a week for men who find themselves without a roof over their heads.
The Datsuns will return to Dunedin next week as part of their first New Zealand tour in more than a year.
Pigville Productions describes itself as a male threesome who want to do nothing else but make films.
Chris Flack, a Dunedin man who has been living in London for more than 18 months, recently featured in his local community newspaper London Lite as part of its weekly ‘‘Single File'' feature, which sets couples up on blind dates.
Do you have a wacky invention that would make everyday life just that little bit easier? If so, the organisers at the Dunedin Fringe Festival want to hear from you.
The Southern Trust iD Dunedin Fashion week will see Dunedin designer Annette Cadogan showcase her label Iris for the first time.
