Mike Houlahan

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says his plans to change how economic performance is measured are intended to be bold.

Labour will leave Dunedin well satisfied with its first party conference in the city for 30 years, writes Mike Houlahan.

November 5, 1918, was the last day the Otago Regiment fought in World War 1. Mike Houlahan looks back at a day which almost resulted in the death of a famed Southlander. 

There is a new leader in the "race" to be the youngest direct descendant of a war veteran at events marking the centenary of the battle of Le Quesnoy.

With pipers, a haggis ceremony, cheese rolls and Chills frontman Martin Phillipps, the Labour Party conference in Dunedin this weekend is intended to double as a celebration of the South.

In theory, Dunedin should afford Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern a rousing reception at her leader's speech at this weekend's Labour Party conference.

A Maniototo sheep farmer was a leading figure in one of the greatest disasters to  strike Western Samoa — the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed a fifth of the population. Mike Houlahan reviews...

Longstanding Dunedin GP Kathy Powell has sold her Meridian Medical Centre practice.

After the reflection, the racket.

The site of the first and only permanent commemoration of New Zealand's part in the Western Front battles of World War 1 will be unveiled next week, in the medieval town of Le Quesnoy.

The shooting stopped on November 11, 1918, but World War 1 continued to kill New Zealanders for years afterwards, new research says.

The Southern District Health Board is one of four DHBs to have racked up deficits of more than $10 million in the 2016-17 financial year.

Turmoil was the theme last time the Labour Party held its annual conference in Dunedin, but the city’s Labour MPs expect next weekend’s event to be triumphant.

The Southern District Health Board is running out of time in 2018 to complete its 2018-21 Health Emergency Plan.