Eileen Goodwin

Finnlay Allerston (17) models an outfit designed by Otago Polytechnic fashion student Korii Adams (21) at the Dungeon Fashion Show held in the basement of the Athenaeum, in the Octagon, on Saturday.

Amanda Young had been fretting about how she was going to be able to buy equipment for her team of special-needs powerlifters.

Dunedin coroner Brigitte Windley is leaving the job less than a year after her appointment because her husband was unable to find work in the city.

The junior doctors’ union has rejected a claim from DHBs that a new pay offer constitutes a significant concession in a sign the increasingly frosty dispute is no closer to being resolved.

An election win for the Labour Party next year is "all the more certain" because of Andrew Little’s leadership, party president Prof Nigel Haworth told party faithful in Dunedin last night.

Reports of bullying and sexual harassment of trainee surgeons have prompted an agreement between the surgeons’ professional college and the Otago Medical School.

Access to hip and knee replacement partly depends on where a patient lives in New Zealand, new research shows.

The ''appalling fiasco'' in Havelock North where thousands of people became ill from contaminated water is likely to be repeated in other parts of New Zealand, Prof Sir David Skegg said yesterday...

ACC must not be left to fix the problems identified in a crucial report concerning the disputes resolution process without independent oversight, claimants' advocacy group Acclaim Otago says.

New Zealand Post has delayed a decision on removing 12 postboxes in Dunedin after a community advocate started campaigning for them not to be taken out during local body elections.

Health Sciences pro-vice-chancellor Prof Peter Crampton speaks at an event to mark the upgrading of the Lawrence Wright Reading Room in Dunedin Hospital yesterday.

Dunedin City Council hopefuls are keener to divulge the political party they support than admit who they would vote for for mayor.

A person who inspires "passion, pace and positivity" is sought to lead the Southern District Health Board as its chief executive.

Cutting staff  at Idea Services’ Dunedin programmes would put clients and staff at risk, a union says.

The University of Otago might stump up some money for the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment.

A University of Otago public health advocate has accused the Government of ignoring the need for alcohol reform in its shake-up of family violence law.

The junior doctors' union has hit back at a ''vitriolic'' statement from district health boards after mediation between the parties failed.

Estimated savings from the controversial hospital food contract have been slashed by up to $150million, NZ Health Partnerships has confirmed.

Excessive consumption of sugar is both harmful and hard to avoid.