Eileen Goodwin

Dunedin's Golden Centre will host an event this Friday to raise money for the Christchurch earthquake appeal.

The Southern District Health Board risked upsetting "young mums" who ought to be consulted about its rural maternity review, board member Kaye Crowther said at the board meeting in Invercargill last week.

Four proposals to operate Waikouaiti's service station are on the table, Waikouaiti Coast Community Board member Gerard Collings says.

The Dunedin City Council wants to extend its kerbside recycling scheme.

The Southern District Health Board is reducing its planning and funding department and centralising it in Dunedin.

Swine flu has claimed 16 lives in New Zealand this winter, and a further 14 people are fighting it in intensive care units.

The Southern District Health Board is shedding six full-time jobs in its planning and funding, and finance divisions.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has turned down the Southern District Health Board's controversial proposal to take fee-paying chemotherapy patients.

The tragic incident in an Auckland pharmacy last week is a scenario feared by every pharmacist, says Dunedin pharmacy owner Chin Loh.

The Government was aware there would be "implications" if the outcome of the neurosurgery process upset people, Prime Minister John Key said in Dunedin yesterday.