The festive season is a time of excess. But as the country’s top traffic officer Paula Rose tells Alan Perrott, there is little cheer in counting its cost.

Universal or voluntary membership? That was the question put to tertiary students in 1999 after the National Government passed a law insisting they choose how they should belong to their student association.

Dunedin's new stadium has attracted its first major singing act, with Sir Elton John set to perform late next year.

A climber is reported to have been killed and a paraglider has spinal injuries after accidents on two South Island mountains today.

The finalists for next year's iD International Emerging Designer Awards have been announced.

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

Like your frocks fabulous and your produce pesticide-free? Dunedin's for you, writes Rachel Grunwell.

Emergency services were called to Wellington International Airport after a plane was forced to return shortly after take-off this afternoon.

New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

So where do you look to diversify when you've already got substantial interests in seafood, shipping, tourism and property?

Move over hobbits, the zombies are coming.

TV One's New York correspondent Tim Wilson might have spent much of the last decade reporting some of the world's biggest stories but somehow he's found time to write his first novel, too. Stephen Jewell spoke to him in New York.

Hamish Chang has revenge on his mind, after returning home to find his every worldly possession tightly wrapped in tinfoil.