Eileen Goodwin

Increasing numbers of stroppy patients at Dunedin Hospital prompted the security team to devise a programme which has won an award.

Dunedin rest-home Ings Memorial Home is closing.

Proponents of a new library for Blueskin Bay say it is a step closer, with an $80,000 grant from the Otago Community Trust.

The Otago Fish and Game Council has posted an $87,772 surplus, making it the "cash cow" of its counterparts across the country, chairman Monty Wright told the annual meeting in Dunedin yesterday.

Disability researchers should reach out to the Pacific, and not just concentrate on New Zealand, a visiting disability advocate told a conference in Dunedin yesterday.

New Dunedin North MP David Clark is expected to rise quickly through Labour's ranks as the party rebuilds.

Dunedin might have reached a "tipping point" where it could no longer be considered safe Labour, Dunedin North National candidate Michael Woodhouse says.

Winning Te Tai Tonga was a "bright spot" for Labour on a disappointing night, says its new MP, Rino Tirikatene.

Arrowtown toddler Olivia McRae's parents will not know for another fortnight if their 13-month-old daughter needs skin grafts for horrific burns to her feet.

Although it sounded "pie in the sky", the medical profession should consider intensive dietary supervision for countering inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), rather than "hammering" people's immune systems with drugs, a visiting authority told a gastroenterology conference in Dunedin this week.

Labour leader Phil Goff was in heartland territory yesterday as he visited the Hillside Engineering workshops in South Dunedin.

Retiring Dunedin Hospital paediatrician Dr John Clarkson has taken a swipe at the media for giving "equal weight" to immunisation sceptics.

The driver who complained about National Party hoarding carriers has taken issue with claims she was politically motivated.

The last working Sister of Mercy at Mercy Hospital has retired from nursing.

A complaint to Dunedin police yesterday morning about the potential hazard posed to drivers from these National Party hoarding carriers appeared to be politically motivated, Senior Sergeant Mel Aitken said.

The Otago Daily Times is profiling the region's electorates, the candidates, and the issues in the lead-up to this month's general election. Reporter Eileen Goodwin takes a look at Dunedin South.