Mike Houlahan

Every few years a new author comes along and fossicks through the Churchill family dirty linen to see what tawdry details remain. Josh Ireland's the latest historian on the conveyor belt, and has found scandal aplenty to fill Churchill & Son.

Survivor’s Dry July supports cancer causes

Bowel cancer survivor Wayne Fa’asega is off the beers for Dry July. Photo: Linda Robertson

Survivor’s Dry July supports cancer causes

Wayne Fa’asega has a better reason than most to remember the day New Zealand went into Covid-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown: it was the day he began chemotherapy for bowel cancer.

Worry about fingers in monetary policy pie

National finance spokesman Michael Woodhouse, worried about the independence of the Reserve Bank....

Worry about fingers in monetary policy pie

Late on Tuesday evening, just before the country got completely distracted by the rude reappearance of Covid-19 on its radar screen, Parliament took another step towards reimagining how the Reserve...

Scanning rates poor: academic

Dunedin bus drivers at work yesterday. Most wore masks, but some have exemptions from doing so....

Scanning rates poor: academic

A Covid-19 scare in Wellington is a warning Dunedin is not exempt, a University of Otago academic says.

Scramble for virus testing in South

Southerners flocked to be tested for Covid-19 yesterday, after Wellington shifted to Alert Level 2 following a weekend visit by a Sydney man suspected of having the highly infectious Delta variant.

Testing urged for those in South with symptoms

Visited Wellington at weekend? Got symptoms? Get tested

Southerners who were in Wellington last weekend and have since begun to feel ill with Covid-19 symptoms are being urged to arrange a test.

Good vibrations at pop-up vaccination centre

The Vahua family, siblings Grace and Io and mother Tuakana Vahua, are all smiles as they receive...

Good vibrations at pop-up vaccination centre

Few medical centres have a festive atmosphere, but Te Kaika, in Dunedin, does its business a bit differently to everyone else.

Mental health bed usage falls

While other district health boards are facing crowded mental health wards and placing patients in rooms not designed for purpose, the Southern DHB is using fewer of its acute mental health beds.

Planners clarify maternity services

The latest concept design image for the new Dunedin Hospital buildings, supplied by the...

Planners clarify maternity services

Planners have released extra details of maternity services in the new Dunedin hospital, after midwives raised concerns about proposed bed numbers in the facility.

Peters promises ‘we are coming back’

Winston Peters urged voters to back New Zealand First, saying making the wrong decision would...

Peters promises ‘we are coming back’

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has emerged from political exile to claim credit for saving the "East Side" railway workshops in Dunedin.

Dunedin club rugby referee recovering after on-field heart failure

Rugby referee Tim Wills is on the road to recovery after collapsing with heart failure near the end of a club game in Dunedin on Saturday.

Southern Say: Flock of Greens flying regularly to Dunedin

Green MP Eugenie Sage helps set up a sign for the party’s Taieri candidate, Scott Willis, during...

Southern Say: Flock of Greens flying regularly to Dunedin

Green MPs Elizabeth Kerekere and Eugenie Sage are in Dunedin tomorrow hosting a public meeting on housing. They aren't the first representatives to pop down in recent times - and they're not going to be the last, writes Mike Houlahan.

Covid jabs: what you need to know

SDHB vaccine rollout incident controller Hamish Brown (left) and vaccine programme leader Karl...

Covid vaccinations: what you need to know

The wider community has plenty of questions about how the Covid-19 vaccine rollout will work. Health reporter Mike Houlahan asked SDHB representatives some of the many questions from ODT readers.

Southern vaccinators getting ready for big push

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern receives her first Covid-19 Pfizer vaccination yesterday in...

Southern vaccinators getting ready for big push

The southern Covid-19 vaccine roll-out is at the end of the beginning.

Career has been ‘so rewarding and satisfying’

Retiring Dunedin Hospital radiation therapist Gaynor Chronican with a tool of her trade, a...

Career has been ‘so rewarding and satisfying’

In the unofficial race between Dunedin Hospital radiation therapist Gaynor Chronican and the oncology department’s Varian linear accelerator machine to retire first, Ms Chronican will claim victory...

$500,000 building costs

$500,000 building costs

The cash-strapped Southern District Health Board has had to find $500,000 to bring 34 of its buildings up to standard.

Uncertainty about safe staffing levels at SDHB

Uncertainty about safe staffing levels at SDHB

Both southern nurses and the Southern District Health Board have grave concerns whether the organisation will be able to meet safe staffing requirements.

Hospital to serve entire South

It is called the Southland Charity Hospital, but those behind the fledgling venture are keen to extend their invitation for free care to their Otago neighbours.

Old company records fortunate find, says Hudson

Former Cadbury executive Paul Hudson and family historian Jennifer Hudson reunite some of the...

Old company records fortunate find, says Hudson

A fortuitous discovery in the former Cadbury factory offices has enabled the Hudson family to answer questions about its history it thought would remain mysteries forever.

$1b health precinct envisioned

$1 billion health precinct envisioned

The University of Otago has revealed a more than $1 billion vision for a health precinct it says offers a once-in-a-generation chance to reshape Dunedin’s city centre.

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