Grant Miller

The level of commitment shown to pushing ahead with building Dunedin’s new hospital at the chosen central city site could help the Ministry of Health’s case that demolition there should proceed.

An Otago specialist in public health medicine has likened lack of improvement in socio-economic conditions for Maori and Pacific people to a boot on their throat.

Former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull has confirmed he is receiving chemotherapy treatment for pancreatic cancer.

The days of roosters ruling the roost in Dunedin may be numbered.

Dunedin's deputy mayor feared she might be hit by a councillor who pointed his finger at her in "stabbing movements" and who grew "increasingly red in the face as he appeared to become more enraged".

A city councillor may think ideas that came out of the Great Dunedin Brainstorm were underwhelming, but a director of the group backing the event says it achieved its purpose.

An agency that promotes international education in Otago is working out how high school pupils from overseas can be encouraged to stay in the region to take up tertiary study.

The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) will bank on improved commercial fortunes to end a series of deficits.

Former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull says he has been overwhelmed by a surge of support since disclosing he is confronting an "ominous health challenge".

A legal challenge to the way students are selected for Otago’s medical school will not go ahead.