Chief executive Carole Heatly will leave the Southern District Health Board at the end of next month, and there is a call for an acting chief executive to be brought in from outside the embattled...
Seven months after the University of Otago announced it was working with the Dunedin City Council to develop a warrant of fitness scheme for rental houses, the parties are at odds over whether it...
When Carole Heatly was appointed, it was hoped the newcomer's lack of loyalty would lead to "blood on the carpet'', in the memorable words of a well-placed source.
Southern District Health Board chief executive Carole Heatly has resigned from the embattled organisation.
The Dunedin medical establishment has been challenged in a new report which takes aim at a claimed use of public sector resources for research and private work.
Education Minister Hekia Parata has defended a school digital learning plan to industry leaders who say it will disadvantage students who want to pursue an IT career.
Just six soldiers escaped injury out of more than 200 Otago Regiment soldiers who took part in a diversionary raid on German positions 100 years ago this week at the Battle of the Somme.
Young people are missing out on mental health services in parts of the South, particularly rural areas, a Southern District Health Board review has found.
The British Parliament ought to impeach Tony Blair to ensure the former prime minister never holds public office again, the University of Otago's Kevin Clements says.
The Southern District Health Board is planning changes at a Dunedin mental health residential service after a review found the unusual joint venture with Pact had not worked as intended.
A tentative construction start of December 2019 for the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment has been revealed in new documents released by Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman under the Official Information Act.
Construction of the new Dunedin Hospital intensive care unit will start in August, after a delay of more than a year, it has been confirmed.
Four Dunedin Hospital radiologists have resigned this year, partly as a consequence of what has been described as a "petty and pious'' attitude from senior management.
There were 44 suspected or actual suicide deaths in the Southern District Health Board area in the 12 months ending May 31, new figures show.
The Dunedin Hospital food debacle was fodder for the Otago Polytechnic Food Design Conference yesterday.
New figures revealing a particularly high incidence of bowel cancer in people aged 60 to 69 in the South highlight the urgent need for the screening programme, a campaigner says.
The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation has turned down fundraising events that are too focused on alcohol, chief executive Evangelia Henderson says.
As little as two alcoholic drinks a day elevates the risk of breast cancer in women, new University of Otago research shows.
An 85-year-old Dunedin woman who gathered hundreds of signatures to save her local postbox was in tears after a New Zealand Post manager visited her home to tell her it was closing.
The head of the group overseeing the Dunedin Hospital rebuild is confident the project is not alienating the Dunedin community, and has appealed for people to consider the "greater good''.
