Mike Houlahan

Not only does the health system need to get ready for the ageing population but so does the legal system, Alison Douglas says.

School pupils still have many more months to wait before receiving long overdue dental check-ups.

Adaptability has helped the National Council of Women reach its centenary, the newly named patron of the Dunedin branch says.

The rebuild of Dunedin Hospital must have the demands of an ageing population at the forefront of its design, Southern District Health Board chief medical officer Nigel Millar says.

A man accused of setting several fires in Alexandra, including the fire which badly damaged the town's recycling centre, told a colleague he had set a workmate's car alight, the Dunedin District...

New regulations governing tobacco packaging come into force today, a move an anti-smoking lobby group says is a vital step towards the goal of New Zealand being smokefree by 2025.

An Alexandra man has denied charges of setting his former workplace alight and damaging the vehicles of former colleagues and his then partner.

A Dunedin woman with a potentially terminal neurological condition was outraged after being asked to wait almost nine months for an MRI scan.

The heart of the community will be ripped out if the Lumsden Maternity Centre is downgraded, local midwife Sarah Stokes says.

Five weeks after disappearing in the wake of a car crash, Dunedin man Andy Cunningham's dog Meg has been found alive.

On March 3, 1918, a "tragic affair occurred’’ on the Western Front. Mike Houlahan looks back at the day when an Otago Regiment soldier killed two officers, and then himself.