Fiona Ellis

A highland games event in Dunedin connected children to the area’s Scottish heritage on Saturday.

The force was especially strong with one former University of Otago student in Saturday’s graduation parade.

Nikki Cockburn is urging people to research their medication in the hope that some good will come of her own ordeal.

Pharmac has reached a provisional agreement to fund medication that could provide those with cystic fibrosis up to 27 more years of full health.

If food banks did not exist, people would be driven to desperation, one food charity recipient says.

Next year, Jake Gawn will board a plane to the United Kingdom seeking a cystic fibrosis wonder drug unfunded in New Zealand at present.

The decision to exclude general practice nurses from a multimillion-dollar government funding boost to achieve health worker pay parity has been slammed as unjustifiable.

Staff at the long-standing Dunedin School of Art are worried for its future following Otago Polytechnic’s recent merger with national mega-polytechnic Te Pukenga.

A win in the battle for pay parity between hospital workers and healthcare workers employed elsewhere could mean the reopening of Ross Home’s Lindsay Unit.

Leadership roles will likely be cut at Otago Polytechnic, executive director Dr Megan Gibbons says.

Presbyterian Support Otago says it can get out of its present financial woes selling "non-core assets" that will not result in any further loss of services.

He used to operate on stroke patients, but nothing in Grant Gillett’s career as a neurosurgeon prepared him for what it was like to experience one himself.

Young swimmers were able to experience the pull of a riptide while several hundred metres inland during a Dunedin water safety event at the weekend.