Eileen Goodwin

Presbyterian Support Otago says it will be able to offer a family violence service if required in the wake of the abrupt closure of Relationships Aotearoa.

Four Dunedin staff will be out of a job when Relationships Aotearoa closes its doors, probably this week.

New Zealand Post chairman Sir Michael Cullen has agreed to check claims the state-owned enterprise is using zero-hours contracts.

A 17-year-old boy was in Dunedin Hospital yesterday with serious injuries after a vicious assault outside a party in North Dunedin on Saturday night.

A search of Lake Wakatipu has been launched after an emergency radio request for help.

Dunedin City Council staff have been given more time to investigate a proposal to locate a South Dunedin library in the South City Mall.

The Dunedin City Council has approved $245,000 of funding for its new arts and culture strategy, and has appointed Cr Aaron Hawkins to lead the body tasked with its implementation.

For half of the four years she has worked as a kitchen assistant and diet aide at Dunedin Hospital, Karen Phillips has lived with the uncertainty of not knowing whether she will hold on to the job.

A meals on wheels driver says he is ''now certain'' the Southern District Health Board and Compass Group simply assumed volunteers would subsidise the service if it was outsourced.

The Ministry of Justice is staying tight-lipped about a change of plan over earthquake-strengthening the Stuart St courthouse in Dunedin, after spending more than $600,000 on its design.

The Service and Food Workers' Union has warned the cash-strapped Southern District Health Board could find itself embroiled in costly legal action if it goes ahead with food service outsourcing.

A doctor involved in a laboratory mix-up that led to one woman needlessly losing a breast and another being subjected to a delayed cancer diagnosis has pleaded for their forgiveness.

An elderly man is in a serious condition after his mobility scooter collided with a truck at the intersection of Gordon Rd and Bush Rd in Mosgiel this afternoon.

Central Otago child diabetes patients are being saved thousands of kilometres of travel because of a remote medicine clinic run from Dunedin Hospital.

Dunedin pathologists who conduct coronial postmortems have signalled they may pull out of the service, the Ministry of Justice confirmed yesterday.