Hamish MacLean

A New Zealand and Australian six-month clinical trial has shown a cannabidiol gel can be used to reduce seizures in the "most challenging and poorly controlled" epilepsy disorders among children.

Young Pacific people will get hands-on help to find jobs, jobs training or education after Dunedin and Oamaru signed on to an expanded employment services support programme yesterday.

Promoting his candidacy has cost one Dunedin City Council hopeful $600 in fines.

Work on the Dowling St steps, one of the last repair jobs after slips caused by the July 2017 flood, is nearly complete.

Nobody looks up at the night sky and ponders the existence of Superman - the Man of Steel is simply a work of fiction.

The wife of a man who died two days after allegedly inadequate medical care in South Otago says the mistakes made before his death were not good enough.

An Owaka farmer received inadequate medical care in the two days leading up to his death, a coroner has ruled.

Dunedin City Council wants the commercial centre of Port Chalmers to have a speed limit equal to the lowest speed limit on the State Highway network in New Zealand.

An enrolment scheme for Logan Park High School, hoped to be in place by next year, should help to cap the school's roll at "a nice size'', the school's co-principal says.

A South Otago woman is worried unvaccinated children could be forced to miss National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) exams if there is a measles outbreak in Balclutha.