Winning lotto ticket a bonus in Auckland man's annual handmade Christmas card from his 13-year-old son.

Customers claim businesses are being greedy in adding surcharges on days not officially holidays.

A chronically ill Hawkes Bay girl has been put on experimental drugs to stop her body rejecting transplanted organs.

A young man speeding at 174 km/h because he was 'late for lunch' is one example of some appalling driving in the holiday break.

A remote-controlled toy plane given to a teenager for Christmas nearly claimed his family's lives after it set their house on fire.

Most of us are just plain worn out, yet we long to create and achieve the kind of holiday time sold to us by the media.

Matisse Reid's celebration of her 10th birthday and Christmas Day came to a halt when she was taken back into intensive care.

Central Christchurch retailers hit by the Boxing Day aftershock say it wiped out three months of economic recovery.

More than 12,000 items were added to the Trade Me website between 4pm and midnight on Christmas Day.

All the gifts Kiwis never wanted made their way on to Trade Me within hours of being received.

Chief Petty Officer Steve Clarke received the best Christmas gift ever yesterday: Watching his children unwrap their presents.