Hamish MacLean

The number of people with Covid-19 in Southern hospitals has increased, and two more deaths were reported yesterday.

A Dunedin pensioner has for the past 12 days been a one-man protest outside Dunedin Hospital.

For the first time, just as many southerners are in hospital because of Covid-19 as patients in for something else who just happen to have the disease.

Only one case of the virulent Delta strain of Covid-19 has been recorded in the South, the Southern District Health Board says.

For more than six decades Otago boys and girls have experienced the thrill of victory and the pain of defeat and deepened their love of the game of rugby at the Taieri Sevens.

Proposed conditions for keeping bird numbers down at Smooth Hill could present a huge risk to the landfill planned for the site south of Dunedin, an environmental consultant says.

High hospitalisation numbers across the South show the peak of the present Omicron wave has not passed, the health board says.

Arabic and Spanish language services have been set up to help former refugees in the South hard hit by Covid-19.

Otago Peninsula roadworks starting next week will include replacing a damaged culvert that caused a sinkhole, disrupting traffic late last year.

A Dunedin civilian whose disappearance during the chaotic fall of Singapore remains a mystery has finally been recognised for his heroic actions.

Transport Minister Michael Wood will get a taste of Dunedin traffic today as the future of the city’s one-way system remains up in the air.

Urban households would pay the Otago Regional Council $30 to $70 more a year in general rates under the council’s draft plan for next year, the council’s chairman says.

The long tail of the Omicron outbreak is lingering in Otago and Southland as case numbers continue a slow descent.

Polarising Otago regional councillor Michael Laws says his return to radio will not interfere with his duties as an elected official.