Group takes on Christmas 'grinch'
Group takes on Christmas 'grinch'
Exchange businesses have accused the Dunedin City Council of being a Christmas grinch.
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'Tis the season to be wary
'Tis the season to be wary
Last-minute online Christmas shoppers are being warned to take extra care when receiving email offers that sound tempting.
God or Mammon?
God or Mammon?
Parliament, as it so often does, tried to design a horse with its legislative provisions controlling private enterprise during Easter, and instead produced a camel.
Christmas burglar jailed
Christmas burglar jailed
CHRISTCHURCH: Rory Khan Conley told his probation officer he felt "like a scumbag" for his Christmas morning burglary in Christchurch, in which he stole a little girl's presents.
Upgrade for Christmas
Upgrade for Christmas
Oamaru is to get new Christmas decorations in time for the next festive season.
Kiwi pair lose beauty rating after 'chubby' Christmas
Kiwi pair lose beauty rating after 'chubby' Christmas
Two "beautiful" New Zealanders, who put on weight over Christmas, have been expelled from a social networking site that only lets "good-looking people" sign up after uploading their holiday snaps on the site.
Members decide on who is allowed to join beautifulpeople.com by voting on a photograph of an applicant and their brief profile.
Winding things up after the gift giving
Winding things up after the gift giving
Christmas presents. I'm not an ungrateful man, but I have Christmas presents from two or three years ago that I have never touched.
Plenty of cheer at church dinner
Plenty of cheer at church dinner
John Lennon may not have been thinking about Christmas dinner at the St Andrews St Church of Christ when he wrote Imagine, but the lyrics - "imagine all the people, sharing all the world" - were appropriate as they wafted through the hall yesterday.
Three times the joy for family at Christmas
Three times the joy for family at Christmas
At only 7 weeks old, the Kelly triplets are too young to know about Christmas.
Christmas in East not like Otago
Christmas in East not like Otago
Rob Powell is shivering through his first white Christmas in Afghanistan, with freezing temperatures cracking -20degC, while dreaming of a festive breakfast with his wife and family back home in New Zealand.
What do children say to Santa?
What do children say to Santa?
New Zealand Post's Otago mail centre has received more than 9000 letters to Santa in the past month. "Santa's letter helper" Colleen Eckhoff ensured Santa responded to every letter with a return address. So what do Otago and Southland children have to say to Santa? Here is a selection of their letters.
Not so goodwill keeps police busy
Not so goodwill keeps police busy
Dunedin police are calling for people to "take it easy" following a night of drunken disorder and assault in the city centre.
Overflowing attendance at churches
Overflowing attendance at churches
The traditional sounds of choral voices merged with comments on climate change as Dunedin churches enjoyed strong turnouts for services of Christmas Day and Christmas Eve.
Santa awash with wishful letters
Santa awash with wishful letters
It's the day before Christmas, when children go to bed to have one final dream of what they hope to find when they open their presents tomorrow.
Christmas not best day for tooth hurty this year
Christmas not best day for tooth hurty this year
If Christmas Day eating proves dentally challenging, you will have to wait until Boxing Day for emergency treatment in Dunedin.
Playing pays for buskers in Dunedin
Playing pays for buskers in Dunedin
Ten-year-old Caitlin McKinlay wants to get to the gymnastics nationals next year.
Santa Line gets requests for girlfriends, peace, happiness
Santa Line gets requests for girlfriends, peace, happiness
The thought of a lonely Christmas has driven adults to call Telecom's Santa Line to ask for girlfriends under the tree.
Santa bringing musical presence to Hyde
Santa bringing musical presence to Hyde
Santa, aka Mark O'Neill, will hit Hyde tomorrow, along with a band of his musical friends, for a concert in the Village Green.
Jobs would be best Christmas gift
Jobs would be best Christmas gift
All Anterea Matana and his wife Mina want for Christmas this year are jobs.
What's ringing the tills this Christmas
What's ringing the tills this Christmas
In the week before Christmas, your true love may go and buy: one Sexy Santa negligee, two scooters scooting, three Lucanus jig lures - and a Susan Boyle CD.