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    ‘Enshittification’ seen in health reforms

    A Dunedin pharmacist has raised concerns about the ‘‘enshittification’’ of New Zealand’s healthcare system, which is slowly dissolving services to people and increasingly serving ‘‘scale, profit...

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    Builder’s career stretches hospital to hospital

    New Dunedin hospital construction worker Trevor Ellison is eyeing retirement, 50 years after...

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    Builder’s career stretches hospital to hospital

    Trevor Ellison reckons if you stand next to a concrete mixer long enough, your working career is bound to turn full circle at some stage.

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    DCC backs new business approach

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    DCC backs new business approach

    Economic development in Dunedin should be supported through a ‘‘bold’’ change of approach that keeps council input at arm’s length, most councillors agree.

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    Unconscious woman left on street

    Stone St resident Matt Thomson says his front porch was damaged after a car crashed into a power...

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    Unconscious woman left on street

    A resident of a Dunedin street has described people ‘‘bolting’’ from a crash where a woman was found lying unconscious in the street.

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    Councillors reject Ong’s naming-rights plan

    Benedict Ong. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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    Councillors reject Ong’s naming-rights plan

    A push to award naming rights of Dunedin public assets has failed, with one councillor confessing he was still baffled despite reading the plan two dozen times.

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    Uni welcomes lab rules reform

    University of Otago zoology PhD student Kahu Hema works in one of the department’s laboratories...

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    Uni welcomes lab rules reform

    A promise to make changes to ‘‘impractical’’ government health and safety regulations in science labs has been welcomed by the University of Otago.

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    Strait repeat could still be on the cards

    Tūhura Otago Museum board chairman and University of Otago physics professor David Hutchinson...

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    Strait repeat could still be on the cards

    Despite nursing aches and pains, a bad sunburn and quite a ‘‘nasty’’ bit of chafing yesterday, David Hutchinson is not ruling out another attempt at swimming across Cook Strait.

    Taskforce on course to de-rock Hancock

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    Taskforce on course to de-rock Hancock

    Taskforce Green members pick up rocks in Hancock Park, near St Kilda Beach, yesterday.

    Family’s numbers pay dividends

    The man purchased his ticket from Bell Block Supermarket in New Plymouth, and is the 17th person...

    Family’s numbers pay dividends

    Using the same Lotto numbers for years has finally paid off for an Otago family who are $5.3million richer after a Powerball jackpot win.

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    Med school’s high risk no surprise: Hernandez

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    Med school’s high risk no surprise: Hernandez

    An opposition MP says he is not surprised the controversial Waikato medical school project has been classed as ‘‘high risk’’ by the government’s financial advisers.

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    Ambulance service has record year

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    Ambulance service has record year

    A rise in stabbing and gunshot wounds in the South has contributed to a ‘‘record’’ demand for ambulances and paramedics.

    'NZ stands with you': Vigil held for landslide victims

    People gather at the site of the community vigil at Coronation Park in Tauranga. Photo: RNZ

    'NZ stands with you': Vigil held for landslide victims

    More than 1000 people have attended a community vigil at Coronation Park in Tauranga this evening in the wake of the Mt Maunganui landslide.

    Plant stench draws hundreds of complaints

    Diggers working at the burnt-out Bromley wastewater treatment plant in June 2022. Photo:...

    Wastewater plant stench draws hundreds of complaints in four days

    A putrid stench lingering in Christchurch's eastern suburbs from the city's wastewater treatment plant is expected to persist for at least another week.

    Govt announces two new specialist schools

    Education Minister Erica Stanford, flanked by Wairarapa MP Mike Butterick and Finance Minister...

    Govt announces two new specialist schools for children with high needs

    The government has announced funding for two news specialist schools, catering for children with high needs and disabilities.

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    Masters Games multi-medallist has no plans to slow down

    Carole Evans, of Mosgiel, is hoping to add a couple more Masters Games medals to her collection....

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    Masters Games multi-medallist has no plans to slow down

    A Mosgiel octogenarian who has never missed a Masters Games has more medals than years to her name — and is hoping to add a couple more to the collection next month.

    Swedish landslide victim 'loved New Zealand'

    Second Mount Maunganui landslide victim formally identified

    A 20-year-old Swedish tourist is the second victim of the fatal Mount Maunganui landslide to be formally identified.

    Peninsula on verge of being possum-free

    Handler Jonah Kitto-Verhoef and his possum detection dog Scout are often the first deployed into...

    Peninsula on verge of being possum-free

    Conservationists expect to officially declare the Otago Peninsula possum-free soon and put more pest species in their sights.

    'Huge challenges' to reconnect communities after storms: PM

    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Photo: RNZ

    'Huge challenges' to reconnect communities after storms: PM

    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has indicated reconnecting some isolated North Island communities could take up to six months.

    Charles doco shows life as nature campaigner

    King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted the premiere at Windsor Castle. Photo: Reuters

    Charles doco shows life as nature campaigner

    King Charles has hosted the first film premiere at a royal palace - a documentary chronicling his lifetime work of championing nature.

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