Michelle McCullough

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.

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.