Mike Houlahan

This week politics has been brought to you by the number 45 ... that being how many community cases of Covid-19 were discovered in Auckland on Wednesday.

Southern public health staff have managed almost 1400 people who were contacts of the Auckland Delta cluster in the current Covid-19 outbreak.

The new Dunedin Hospital is to have a new Dunedin Hospital car park.

A chronic aged residential care nurse shortage has left almost two-thirds of southern facilities without their required number of registered nurses.

The University of Otago’s appeal for voluntary redundancies is scattershot and unplanned, the staff union says.

Southern general practices and medical centres have started using a new tool which will help them identify patients who have yet to receive the Covid-19 vaccination.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and National Party leader Judith Collins clashed in Parliament yesterday on the question of why Invercargill is at Alert Level 2.

All women whose BreastScreen Otago Southland mammograms were referred for an urgent reassessment following a botched initial reading have been cleared of having cancer.

The Ministry of Health is advertising for a main contractor and facade contractor for the new Dunedin Hospital outpatient building.

A project aimed at making southern homes warmer and drier is back on track after a delay related to Covid-19.

The team of five million has now had five million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

The Covid-19 pandemic is not over, but Southern health officials are already planning for how to deliver health care when the coronavirus has become an endemic disease, health reporter Mike...

A Southern sailor has been stranded at sea for more than 100 days, unable to get back to New Zealand because he cannot obtain an emergency quarantine spot.

The Commerce Commission has been granted an extension to finalise its report on competition in the supermarket sector.

Scientists who this week released modelling of how differing vaccination levels could affect Covid-19 case numbers in New Zealand are now working on a more detailed piece of work which could...

For many MPs, Tuesday was their first time back at Parliament for several weeks.

National's South Island MPs have joined forces to ask Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to explain why the island is at Covid-19 Alert Level 2.

Two years after the southern mental health service introduced mental health advance preference statements (Maps), it is about to evaluate how successful they have been.

The latest Covid-19 lockdown has affected the mental health of Southerners and been especially hard for young people, clinicians say.

While Covid-19 has seen the legislative work of Parliament largely fall by the wayside, select committees have still been hard at work, both via Zoom meetings and through drafting of reports.