Allison Rudd

Public Health South public health physician Dr Marion Poore does not believe there are significant health risks from drinking Taieri bore water high in manganese.

Zoe Merzedes reels off a long list of names.

Ravensdown received three complaints from residents during a 24-hour ship unloading trial at the Ravensbourne wharf and expects there may be more.

When Ian Taylor was asked only two and a-half weeks ago if his staff at Animation Research Ltd could produce a video on the plans for rebuilding Christchurch central city in time for last night's launch, he immediately said yes.

A leaked report into the extent of mechanical problems with KiwiRail's first batch of Chinese-designed and manufactured locomotives vindicates her concerns New Zealand "bought cheap and got cheap", Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran says.

Ravensdown is revisiting plans to unload ships around the clock at its Ravensbourne fertiliser manufacturing plant.

Taieri horticulturist Brian Miller is shocked.

Former Knox College master Bruce Aitken has announced he will not return to his role.

Oamaru police are seeking a car and its three occupants after a short, high-speed pursuit in the town yesterday.

Lee Stream farmer Peter Doherty still considers the wind turbines he can see from his farm gate "a blot on the landscape".

Commercial interest in the oil and natural gas resources lying off the coast of Otago has prompted Niwa to bring forward the first detailed survey of the Great Southern Basin seabed.

The Southern District Health Board has been granted Dunedin City Council approval to subdivide the Wakari Hospital site in Taieri Rd into five lots.

For Dunedin couple Joselle Tahana and Tim Greene, KiwiSaver has been the key to buying their first home.

Alice Bassett-Smith was married, and now she is not. She and her United States-born husband married in 2000, lived together in both New Zealand and the US, divorced in 2008 and have both moved on.

They are a growing phenomenon in the Otago real estate market - first home buyers with KiwiSaver money to spend.

Otago will get another two CT scanners within two years, after the Southern District Health Board yesterday endorsed a proposal for machines at both Dunstan Hospital at Clyde and Lakes District Hospital in Queenstown.