John Lewis

It's been called the Toaster and the Glasshouse.

Outram was a sight for sore eyes for Luke O'Malley, when he cycled into the township last week.

Dunedin is putting on a blooming good show of rhododendrons, one of the world's foremost authorities on the flower says.

The recurring theft of emergency lifebuoys from cabinets on Customhouse Quay has prompted fears someone will die if it continues.

A 7-year-old with their own cheque book is probably not a good idea - unless it is one issued by the bank of Big Value Christmas.

Several international studies have highlighted the effectiveness of anaesthetic drug ketamine in treating depression, Prof Paul Glue says.

To the lay person, the back of Frank Bell's homemade radio transmitter looks like a box of spare parts.

Rangi and Karetai have been familiar sights on Otago Harbour for about 40 years, but the long-serving tug boats will be little more than a memory come Monday.

If you've never seen or heard of Tanya Faiva before, you soon will.

Matt Sainsbury will spit tacks - and maybe even some blood - if he doesn't get through the first round of auditions for next year's The X Factor.

If it were not for changing tidal flows, the fishing waka unearthed from Papanui Inlet on Otago Peninsula at the weekend might never have been discovered, Department of Conservation historic technical adviser Shar Briden said.

Vicki McIntyre is used to long commutes to work each day.

Watching his 8-year-old cousin dying from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been hard, Luke O'Malley says.

A Chinese tourist had her rental car contract torn up and rewritten by a rental company after she was pulled over by police for alleged dangerous driving near Queenstown yesterday.

Firefighters managed to extinguish a blaze near Palmerston which threatened hundreds of hectares of forestry at the weekend, despite mother nature not providing a helping hand.

It's amazing what one will do for love.

For Sam van Betew, it was just an exercise designed to keep his composing hand in over the summer holidays.

Chris Foot is solid enough in his masculinity to readily admit he was like a wide-eyed child in a toy store during a recent visit to the Volvo truck manufacturing plant in Sweden.

Former Otago Highlander Filipo Levi has been appointed to a pivotal role in one of New Zealand's first Christian charter schools.