Eileen Goodwin

Most people have one party when they turn 100, but Molly Brown, proudly showing off two birthday cards, has had three.

Compass says some Dunedin Hospital patient meals were not hot enough this week, but the meals are improving each day.

At least 2% of Housing New Zealand tenants are not eligible to live in a state house and will be moved into the private market.

Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman initially told Cabinet colleagues four and a-half years was too long to be without a democratically elected health board in the South.

Losing public funding for its pregnancy classes will not deter a Dunedin organisation that wants to promote natural birth.

The Southern District Health Board has refused to release documents that spell out the commissioner regime's plans for southern healthcare.

A man has been taken to Dunedin Hospital tonight after the car he was in crashed into a tree near Palmerston.

The president of the Otago Property Investors Association has no sympathy for Dunedin residents who are complaining about the city's sharply rising residential property values.

Officials have admitted the big-ticket Dunedin Hospital redevelopment plan is a factor in the unexpected delay of the Dunedin physio pool upgrade.

The Southern District Health Board paid out more than $123,000 for employee terminations in the last financial year.

Officials fretted about Dunedin's "substandard'' housing and a shortage of entry-level jobs before choosing the city as a refugee resettlement location, papers released under the Official Information Act show.

A protest outside the office of the city's only National MP made its presence felt in central Dunedin yesterday as trade ministers from around the world gathered in Auckland to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.

The Southern District Health Board cannot say when these Dunedin Hospital lifts, closed in October because of the asbestos scare, will reopen.

Meals on Wheels cancellations are four times higher than the Southern District Health Board has previously disclosed.

The number of cancellations of meals on wheels is four times as high as the Southern District Health Board has previously acknowledged.

An outcry over the quality of the frozen meals being trucked from the North Island has prompted a special meeting in Dunedin today between Southern District Health Board and senior Compass Group staff.

A Dunedin woman says she had better food growing up in a Nazi-occupied country than the ‘‘disgusting'' meals on wheels trucked from Auckland and Tauranga.

Up to 250 people have declared the Octagon a Trans Pacific Partnership-free zone at an ''action event'' in Dunedin this afternoon.

Labour's newly-minted opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement found favour at an anti-TPP event in the Octagon on Saturday.

University of Otago graduate Brad Sutherland, a research fellow at the University of Oxford, tells reporter Eileen Goodwin about the next step in his career.