Mike Houlahan

A fire alarm prevented an Invercargill school suffering serious damage due to a suspicious fire early this morning, police say.

Computers and government have been a major issue this past fortnight with the fallout from National accessing Budget data still proving dangerously radioactive to a range of politicians and civil...

The next stage of the revamp of the southern primary healthcare system is about to begin, as Alliance South seeks expressions of interest in developing community health hubs.

Strong demand for flu vaccinations has resulted in treatment supplies running low.

Fewer than 5% of New Zealand children who have before-school health checks record abnormal scores, but not all of them are referred for further assessment, University of Otago research has found.

That last beer or glass of wine may have cost you $12, but it could cost your employer more than $1000 a year and the New Zealand economy $1.65 billion annually, new research suggests.

A long-standing passion for and involvement in human rights law has led to Dunedin lawyer Sarah Eyre being appointed one of five new deputy chairmen and women to the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Landing on one D-Day beach would have been enough for most people, but on June 6, 1944, Wilf Townsend was one of those rare people to set foot on two.

In Budget week it is really quite an achievement to get anything other than the country's finances on the national political agenda.

Southern District Health Board medical officer of health Marion Poore retired from the SDHB yesterday. She spoke to health reporter Mike Houlahan about a life’swork devoted to community health.

This may have been the Wellbeing Budget, but Budget 2019's bottom-line numbers show Finance Minister Grant Robertson has not taken his eye off the nation's wealth.

Yesterday's Budget confirmed funding for the biggest building project in the health sector, the new Dunedin Hospital, as well as allocating $1.7billion over two years to upgrading other hospitals.

The Southern District Health Board has instigated a formal investigation involving an independent midwife into a Lumsden woman giving birth in an ambulance on Sunday.

The Southern District Health Board needs to talk to the Ministry of Health about the provision of mental health services, given the parlous state of Wakari Hospital, chief executive Chris Fleming...

Suicide, one of the biggest issues that confronted the Government inquiry into mental health and addiction services, remains a sticking point.

The Southern District Health Board has commissioned an independent review into the circumstances which saw a Lumsden woman give birth in an ambulance on Sunday.

The Southern District Health Board remains ahead of target for elective surgery despite the disruption caused by the resident doctor's strike, a report to be presented to board commissioners today...

Heath Minister David Clark says he will hold the Southern District Health Board commissioner to account if promised maternity services are not put in place in Southland.