Personal care appears to be increasing as the health board reduces general home help and the two might be connected, Southern District Health Board member Richard Thomson said at the board's full meeting yesterday.
The big question when you have been married for 60 years is whether you would do it all again, says George Graham, who yesterday celebrated the milestone with his wife Nan.
A Dunedin couple who were billed for hundreds of dollars worth of calls made on their cellphone before they received it can finally breathe easier.
A no-entry policy at Dunedin's Gardens Tavern after the rugby test starts will help avert trouble as the "iconic boozer" prepares to close its doors later this month, says pub owner Pete Innes-Jones.
Extra money for high-tech scans for cancer allows greater access to a procedure that gives more detailed information, says Southern District Health Board chief medical officer Richard Bunton.
The Otago University Students Association has criticised the Dunedin City Council for opting not to organise an event for students on June 19 to take the focus off the night the Gardens Tavern shuts its doors.
A 25-year-old Dunedin man was airlifted from the sea near Taieri Mouth yesterday afternoon.
Hundreds of households in Macandrew Bay and Company Bay were without water for several hours yesterday after a main burst.
Hundreds of households in Macandrew Bay and Company Bay were without water for several hours yesterday after a main burst.
An Invercargill teenager with meningococcal disease has had her legs amputated below the knee.
A service club's donation is helping Wakari Hospital patients get out and about without having to call a taxi.
Ocean Beach Scout Group Hall scouts and scout leaders celebrate the reopening of their hall on Thursday night after an arson last September.
The science of silence will be under the microscope today and tomorrow as a team of 13 scientists hold their tongues for a good cause.
Waiting times for semi-urgent cardiac specialist services in Otago are at least double what they ought to be, and GPs have been issued guidelines to keep less serious complaints out of specialist services.
The Government allocated $2 million of extra funding in Thursday's Budget to help the Department of Labour provide advice on part-privatising ACC.
A Southern District Health Board mental health contract process is on hold after a union complained staff who might be out of a job were not properly consulted.
Dunedin's charity health clinic, Servants Health Centre, is close to "breaking even" four months after opening, despite helping people free of charge, says Dr John Arnold.
New Zealand led the way in allowing women to practise law without the "fuss and bother" that accompanied the struggle women had in other countries, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, told attendees of the New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, yesterday.
A senior manager at the Southern District Health Board will leave at the end of this month as the board strives to cut its multimillion-dollar deficit.
Sex workers are happier and healthier since their occupation was decriminalised seven years ago, says a University of Otago public health researcher.
