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.
A jet aircraft carrying 115 people had to make an emergency landing at Dunedin airport this evening after a bird-strike incident.
A driver is being labelled by police as foolhardy for trying to take a bus full of tourists up reputedly the world's steepest street.
Cocker Happy? Yes they were. There cannot be anyone who does raw emotion like the lad from Sheffield - Joe Cocker.
There's plenty to do on and off a cruise ship, finds Shandelle Battersby, and the attentive staff make cruising even better.
Dunedin's new stadium, racing to be completed in time for the Rugby World Cup, is set to lose $400,000 when it hosts three pool matches.
A central Dunedin cafe could be closed for several weeks after parapets above it started collapsing this morning.
Dunedin will have its state of the art, 30,000 capacity multi-purpose stadium complete and ready to go by August.
Roads and vehicles must be "more forgiving" to curb a road toll which averages more than one death a day, the AA says. Figures released by the Ministry of Transport today show 371 people died on the roads over the past year.
Men and women who are in relationships for longer than five years are less likely to be depressed, researchers have found.