The South's breast-screening service may come to a ''standstill'' because the Southern District Health Board is refusing to honour mammographers' redundancies, the Association of Professionals and Executive Employees (Apex) says.
''Not busy, but it's not dead yet,'' is Forget Me Not coffee bar owner Bruce Tritt's take on the health of South Dunedin's retail centre.
The Moment of Truth meeting in Auckland last night ''utterly failed'' to deliver anything other than rhetoric, Prime Minister John Key told media on a visit to Dunedin today.
To the best of his knowledge, the United States' National Security Agency does not have data facilities in New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key said in Dunedin yesterday.
Labour, if elected, will invest millions in Dunedin manufacturing and fast-track the Dunedin Hospital rebuild in a bid to restore the city's fortunes, leader David Cunliffe promised on a visit to the city yesterday.
There seems little mood for change in our biggest city, where even left-leaning voters appear resigned to defeat tomorrow.
The Otago Daily Times visits Balclutha where the streets are quiet, the farmers are busy, and the mood is blue - of the political colour.
It's best knowing as little as possible about how both laws and sausages are made, Prime Minister John Key joked on a visit to Dunedin yesterday.
The New Zealand Nurses Union has issued a position statement calling for Dunedin's National Poisons Centre to be saved.
Rumours are swirling about what Kim Dotcom will reveal at the Auckland Town Hall tonight, University of Otago politics lecturer Bryce Edwards says.
Reporter Eileen Goodwin examines the once solid Labour seat of South Dunedin, which lost the party vote at the last election. Just how the New Zealand Labour Party managed to lose the party...
Oamaru is the biggest centre in the super-safe National seat of Waitaki. The Otago Daily Times briefly visited this week to ask what was on the minds of voters.
Deriving edible protein from lower grade wool is one of six University of Otago projects to receive more than $10 million in science investment funding.
The Otago Daily Times visits Palmerston where, thanks to an electoral boundary change, the rural town now finds itself in Labour territory.
Eileen Goodwin turns the spotlight on Waitaki as the Otago Daily Times continues its series of profiles of the region's electorates.
Southern District Health Board chief executive Carole Heatly will spend three weeks in face-to-face meetings with senior doctors who have concerns about the organisation.
Southern Community Laboratories, the Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre and the Urgent Pharmacy are on notice they may have to move from their respective premises in central Dunedin.
The Otago Daily Times is profiling electorates in the lead-up to the general election. Reporter Eileen Goodwin looks at Clutha-Southland.
Not quite knowing how a garment will turn out is why she loves felting, designer Annette O'Callaghan says.
The Otago Daily Times is profiling electorates in the lead-up to the general election. Reporter Eileen Goodwin looks at Dunedin North.
