The drummer for Dunedin’s cult indie band the Clean, Hamish Kilgour, tells Rebecca Barry about life in the Big Apple and how he remains Kiwi.

Two Dunedin businesses are seeing a massive increase in orders as they are asked to supply Christchurch customers after the earthquake.

Only the Highlanders remain unbeaten of the New Zealand teams in rugby's revamped Super 15 after the Blues faded in Durban today.

We are not being surrounded by aliens from outer space after all, but by PVC monsters.

Having led a lonely childhood, Lesley Pearse knows what it is to seek a better life. Now she is helping women to help others. She tells Stephen Jewell how.

Holding his only surviving daughter after a horror car crash, Donald Coulter says: "I thank my lucky stars I still have one. I still wish I had two."

A union will be appealing Burger King's decision to issue a final warning to a Dunedin employee for posting the message "real jobs don't underpay and overwork people like BK does" on her private Facebook page.

Kiwi crime queen Vanda Symon talks to Craig Sisterson about accidental heroines and playing with swords.

Three Dunedin police officers were injured in an attack last night, the second such incident in 24 hours.

Cheaper calls may be at hand, but you'll probably still need two phones to get the best deals.

A "cowardly" man who attacked a Dunedin police officer - leaving him with concussion, bleeding to the face and bruising - is still at large. The officer was set upon by a passenger who was travelling in a car he stopped late last night.

Burger King has been accused of bullying a worker who complained about work conditions on Facebook.

The Rugby World Cup "party central" will be "a destination second to none" and will be ready in time for the event, Auckland Waterfront Development Agency chairman Bob Harvey says.

After an interregnum of six years following the "retirement" of Justin Paton (the quotation marks are an intriguing addition by the publisher) in 2004, during which "guest editors" steered the ship, Landfall has a permanent editor again.

Alison Shanks has stood on the dais to receive world championship and Commonwealth Games gold medals. But she remembers just as vividly standing at the helm of the Spirit of New Zealand.