Eileen Goodwin

A shared religious service with members of the Methodist and the Muslim faiths is being considered to dedicate a specially-made cross to refugees.

The Salvation Army Family Store in South Dunedin has closed due to a "competitive market'' among second-hand shops.

A mother and her two children escaped injury in a house fire in Mosgiel last night by getting out quickly, Mosgiel fire station officer Steve Turnbull said.

The Compass Group is considering removing fish cakes from the children's menu after a toddler found a 2cm bone embedded in a fish cake at Dunedin Hospital.

In an "ideal world'', the Southern District Health Board would have complied with its obligation under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act to hold monthly advisory committee meetings, commissioner Kathy Grant says.

Since the "listening sessions'' at Southern District Health Board, staff attitudes have started to shift, chief executive Carole Heatly says.

A Dunedin barrister says he has a "simple'' solution to the school ball after-party crackdown that has prompted schools to can the long-anticipated events.

Changes at Dunedin Hospital's staff cafe do not warrant the level of dissatisfaction evident in a new doctors' survey, the Compass Group says.

The Medical Council is making a crucial decision today on whether to accredit the Southern District Health Board to train intern doctors.

Dunedin Hospital's role as a teaching hospital must be preserved in the $300 million hospital redevelopment, University of Otago medicine department head Prof Rob Walker says.

The Dunedin physio pool's future hangs in the balance because of a ‘"quagmire of bureaucracy and butt-covering'', Dunedin North MP David Clark says.

Residents at a Dunedin aged-care home are celebrating after saving their local postbox from closure.

The cost of dealing with asbestos at Dunedin Hospital has shot up to $2.3million. The figure was disclosed at a Southern District Health Board committee meeting in Dunedin on Tuesday.

The commissioner team running Southern District Health Board has been publicly challenged about decisions it is taking at the embattled board.

Pharmac is good at getting bargain prices from suppliers, but that is creating a "fragile'' supply chain, a Palmerston pharmacist frustrated by ongoing medicine shortages says.