A city-wide plan to help Dunedin’s homeless get the support they need is being discussed with city councillors next week with the aim of stopping "vulnerable people slipping through the cracks".
Eleven Dunedin boarding houses are to be scrutinised by government — after the Otago Daily Times’ ongoing "Houses of Horror" investigation exposed the city’s hell holes.
Volunteers providing life-saving help to Dunedin’s homeless say a solution must be found to end "devastating" homelessness in the city.
Homeless people stuck in the infamous Carisbrook Hotel are starting to get out of it with the help of officials, after the Otago Daily Times exposed the building’s grim conditions.
Dunedin's Stafford Gables Hostel — lambasted in the media this year for being a terrible place to stay — is a boarding house for the homeless, while also still claiming to be a backpackers.
Jacky Cheung, the owner of the slum-house former Carisbrook Hotel, slapped three homeless people in his building with hand-written eviction notices last night.
The former Carisbrook Hotel has been branded by the government "not a suitable option" for emergency accommodation — and the government has stopped pointing homeless people to its slum rooms.
Telling homeless people’s stories took the Otago Daily Times into Dunedin’s darkest boarding houses — as well as some places of hope.
Hell and hardship are not hard to come by in Dunedin's boarding houses. Reporter Mary Williams exposes the stories of lives usually hidden behind crumbling walls.
Chronically sick and addicted homeless people are being left abandoned in Dunedin horror houses at risk of injury and death, an Otago Daily Times investigation exposes today.
The recently closed Carisbrook Hotel has been transformed into a horror house for the homeless funded by the Ministry of Social Development.
A wetland bankrolled by the government in a dairy farming area of the contentious Manuherikia catchment has been slammed as expensive greenwashing.
A revolutionary new test for hepatitis C - New Zealand’s "silent epidemic" - is already saving lives in Otago and Southland as World Hepatitis Day is marked today.
Drastic action, including banning dairy farming expansion in some areas, is needed to clean up some of Otago’s polluted rivers, an Otago Regional Council report says.
Restoring the degraded Manuherikia River and its creeks now trumps the demands of irrigators accused of sucking the life from it. Mary Williams reports on the contested catchment's future.
In Central Otago, a river’s health is being weighed against the demands of irrigation. Mary Williams investigates the complex, dry, catchment of the Manuherikia river - and the struggle to restore it
Manuherikia River minimum flow recommendations will be put to Otago regional councillors next month, ending a two-year wait, the council has confirmed.
Staff at Otago Polytechnic are seeking more information so they can respond to draft plans to chop jobs and possibly rehire axed staff into new roles.
Will the bailout solve the University of Otago’s financial woes? Mary Williams crunches the numbers.
When David attempted suicide in the early hours of Christmas Day 2019, aged just 33, he was thinking his life insurance was worth more than his life.