Dunedin must walk a "fine line" between helping Christchurch business and seeming to exploit the situation, Dunedin City Council economic development unit manager Peter Harris says.
Quake refugee Alana Bachop convinced her parents to stay an extra night in Dunedin so she could see pop idol Stan Walker.
The Christchurch earthquake is likely to have little effect on Rugby World Cup tourism but the games must be shifted from the shattered city, actor and travel writer Tim Bentinck says.
Lessons from September's earthquake will be put to good use when Red Cross distributes funds raised for victims after last week's much more devastating quake, the charity's appeal commission chairman, Sir John Hansen, said in Dunedin this week.
The Dunedin City Council will undertake a freedom camping "census" this month.
A group set up to oppose Hope and Sons' proposed cremator in South Dunedin is relieved the funeral company has dropped its bid to overturn the decision declining the proposal.
Dunedin residential care provider facing legal action over sleepover shift payments says the case could force its closure.
A University of Otago employment law specialist says care workers have been subsidising the community residential sector - and ultimately the Government - through being "short-changed" in their wages.
Boarding schools throughout New Zealand are watching developments closely in the case of sleepover shifts for overnight workers, Tolcarne Boarding Residence manager Helen Crossan says.
Ten former Otago Boys' High School pupils who have been awarded places at the Dunedin School of Medicine in the same intake say teamwork and a healthy dose of competition is the secret of their success.
Bullying was not rife in New Zealand hospitals to his knowledge, Dunedin School of Medicine dean Dr John Adams said last night.
Dunedin breast cancer survivor Dr Sue Walthert says it took a long time, but she no longer thinks about her illness every day.
Sexually transmitted disease rates in Dunedin are down, lifting hopes special funding will continue under a new health body.
The loss of the Garrison Hall in Port Chalmers is "demolition by neglect", local historian John Neilson says.
A "new regime" within the Southern District Health Board has resulted in a major turnaround in relations with the community mental health sector, Corstorphine Baptist Community Trust chief executive Wendy Halsey says.
New Zealand Medical Students' Association president Oliver Hansby is taking a year away from his medical studies in this election year to study a different democratic process - elected district health boards.
More than 1200 people turned out at an open day in Dunedin on Saturday to view components of turbines for the TrustPower Mahinerangi wind farm.
A level of dissatisfaction with a an overseas provider of medico-legal services was what prompted a group of New Zealand doctors to start an insurance scheme, Dunedin-based Milton GP Dr Wayne Cunningham said.
The National Health Board has agreed to review the mental health "ring-fence" funding formula for the Southern District Health Board to find out whether an "aberration" is forcing it to overspend in the area, chairman Joe Butterfield says.
The Southern District Health Board has released membership details of its advisory committees.
