Grant Miller

Just a few months on from facing significant health challenges, Judith de Mabasa Mitchell is in a happier place.

The planned new Dunedin Hospital has been designed with the future in mind and a health sector shake-up does not change that, Health Minister Andrew Little says.

Waikouaiti Coast residents unimpressed by a maintenance proposal for Seacliff’s Truby King Reserve say local knowledge and skills have been disregarded.

The health response to lead contamination of East Otago water supplies has been deemed timely and appropriate, but a review has highlighted communication problems were a hindrance.

Demolition work has been halted at the site of a former Dunedin bookshop because the developer should have a building consent.

There could be room for both bicycles and trains if the Otago Central Rail Trail is extended to Dunedin.

A Waikouaiti farm owner wants to subdivide a 19th-century homestead so it can be preserved, but planning rules may get in the way.

If Dunedin city councillors decide today Dunedin Railways Ltd requires financial support, it will have to come from money that is not in the council’s budget.

Trains could be sold or leased to a business that wants to run a tourism rail service from Dunedin.

Trains could be sold or leased to an organisation that wants to run a tourism rail service from Dunedin.

A difference of opinion about whether future mining could be a realistic proposition at Foulden Maar may be a significant sticking point delaying acquisition of the inland Otago fossil site.

A consistent flow of screen projects could provide enough work for a Dunedin-based film crew year-round.

A dispute involving Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis that has cost tens of thousands of dollars seems set to get more expensive.

The Ministry of Health is evaluating tenders to lead preparations for construction of the new Dunedin Hospital inpatients building.