An idea to put 30% of Aurora Energy on the stock exchange should be pitched to Dunedin residents to see if this is more palatable to them than a full sale, a city councillor says.
The Prime Minister says the government remains committed to delivering "a good hospital for the people of the South", but reiterates that it must remain within budget.
Dunedin's mayor says a protest over the weekend was the city's biggest in decades, and has a warning for the government: people are just getting started.
Tens of thousands of people flooded George St and the Octagon in protest on Saturday after the government announced its plans to down-scale the new Dunedin hospital project.
The University of Otago says the government’s proposal for a third medical school at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, "simply does not stack up".
Calefax's encore of Moondog’s laid-back New Amsterdam closed their performance before a highly appreciative audience, which filled the stalls at the Glenroy Auditorium on Friday evening.
Retrofitting the asbestos-ridden Dunedin Hospital was dismissed by engineers as unworkable and more expensive than starting from scratch, documents show.