The delays announcing the results of Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations in Atlanta may be working in New Zealand's favour, University of Otago international relations authority Prof Robert Patman says.
It was unpopular with the public, but the Southern District Health Board will be hoping few notice any change when a multinational company takes over its kitchens on Monday.
Job cuts at Radio Dunedin will leave the station with no journalist, MediaWorks has confirmed.
That no one person was specifically responsible for the bottom line at Southern District Health Board was a factor in its financial problems, papers the board tried to keep secret show.
A bid to set up a rival primary health organisation (PHO) in the South has failed.
A report revealing the extent of bullying among surgeons has shocked the profession, and it is vowing to change.
A Dunedin produce supplier remains in limbo over its agreement with Dunedin Hospital's kitchen worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
High-flying Belgian neurosurgeon Dirk De Ridder says uncertainty at Dunedin Hospital is creating ''restlessness'' in the neurosurgery unit.
The dispute between the Ministry of Education and King's High School has ended.
Protesters jostled with police tonight as they tried to disrupt a National Party fundraising event in Dunedin.
Repeated stalling on the $300 million Dunedin Hospital redevelopment shows the timeframe is slipping, but the Government will not admit it, North Dunedin MP David Clark says.
Hiring expensive contractors at the Southern District Health Board is necessary to keep the organisation running, deputy commissioner Richard Thomson says.
Dunedin woman Jan Burch, of the NumberWorks'n Words tutoring service, was inspired to shave off her hair when one of her trainee tutors, Frances Barnett, did so for charity.
Life is getting back to normal at Montecillo Veterans Home and Hospital, in Dunedin, after a lightning strike threw numerous systems out just over a week ago.
New techniques in radiocarbon and DNA analysis have made the field of archaeological dating a fast-moving one in which discoveries sometimes destroy long-held assumptions, Tom Higham told a packed talk in Dunedin last night.
Six technicians at Invermay near Mosgiel are among 83 AgResearch staff who may lose their jobs under a restructuring announced yesterday.
The Government says it still supports AgResearch's plan to shift science staff from Invermay to Lincoln, despite the wide uncertainty now besetting the crown research institute.
Some staff at New World Centre City in Dunedin are suffering ''hardship'' after their hours were cut with no consultation, First Union organiser Shirley Walthew says.
Outram Medical Centre faces a tougher future with less funding because it is losing its status as a rural practice.
A potential conflict of interest means the decision over whether to allow a breakaway primary health organisation to form will not be made by the Southern District Health Board.
