A group of health professionals are calling for a new organisation to address patient rights and safety as people find the health system increasingly difficult to navigate.
A choice between increasing costs for adults on buses or ending free trips for children is a choice between "evil and evil", an Otago regional councillor says.
US President Donald Trump says he might meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this month and dismissed Ukraine's concern about being left out of US-Russian talks on ending war.
Methamphetamine and knives were discovered inside a vehicle in Dunedin after officers noticed a ‘‘strong smell of cannabis’’ wafting from within, police say.
A former minister says dozens of families with babies born since a change to citizenship rules have asked him to help keep their children in New Zealand.
Staff and students were evacuated for about an hour on Wednesday afternoon from the University of Otago medical and dental schools after a strong smell of gas spread through the buildings. They were...