Newspaper CMS Site – “Issues”?

Hi everyone,

After experimenting with tons of heavy duty CMSes, I’m back to my old favourite WordPress.

I’m making a site for a print newspaper that publishes weekly. I’ve made all my categories (and subcategories) for content, but ideally I want to be able to also organise these by Issue (of the print publication). Ideally I’d be able to add new issues, and set one of them as ‘current’ so only content from that issue would be shown on the homepage. The rest of the content would be archived and available if you click deeper, but by default you’d just see that weeks’ news.

Can I do this? Are there any appropriate plugins or is this something I need to write myself? Any pointers in the right direction would be fantastic.

Matt