Mike Houlahan

Steam trains could return to city

Sam Mackwell (left) and Nico Haima, of Christchurch firm Mackwell Locomotive Ltd, with plans for...

Steam trains could return to city

More than 60 years after the last locally-made steam locomotive rolled out of Hillside workshop, a Christchurch firm wants to wind the clock back and return steam power to Dunedin’s railways.

Damp start to phosphate ship protest

Damp start to phosphate ship protest

A pair of Environmental Justice Otepoti members battled to get their protest against phosphate carrier Federal Crimson under way as the vessel neared Ravensbourne wharf yesterday.

Medical staff cautioned about boundaries

Medical staff cautioned about boundaries

All Southern District Health Board senior medical and dental officers have been warned to maintain ‘‘scrupulous adherence’’ to the boundaries between their private and public work.

SDHB staff 'seething' over management's performance

Senior Southern DHB medical staff have ‘‘seething anger’’ over the conduct and performance of the organisation’s management - and their organisation is at ‘‘teetering point’’, a veteran health unionist says.

Entonox ‘required’ in two of six cases: GP

Entonox ‘required’ in two of six cases: GP

A third of urgent cases seen at the Lumsden maternal and child hub in the weeks after it opened involved mothers who needed nitrous oxide for pain relief, newly released emails show.

Plea from GP for pain relief drug at maternal and child hub

Plea from GP for pain relief drug at maternal and child hub

A plea from a Te Anau GP that the Southern District Health Board add a common pain relief drug to the medicines available at the Lumsden maternal and child hub will be considered.

Electorate jigsaw a tricky one to work out

Where in the world does it make sense that the Clutha district is not in the Clutha electorate, that a decent chunk of Dunedin’s southern suburbs are in Dunedin North, and that the deeply inland...

Petition handed to MP

Corinda Taylor watches Green MP Chloe Swarbrick as she accepts her petition in Wellington...

Petition handed to MP

A Dunedin-instigated petition which aims to level the playing field when the courts consider legal issues relating to suicide is about to be presented to Parliament.

St Andrew’s Day outing a sure thing

Ghillie Callum Dancers (from left) Grace Duxbury (11), Annie Jiang (13), Morgane Torr (17) and...

St Andrew’s Day outing a sure thing

Under Robbie Burns’ benevolent gaze, Dunedin’s Scottish community gathered in the Octagon on Saturday to mark St Andrew’s Day.

Christmas event draws big crowds

Vaiola Kafa Tangimana (4) has her face painted as an angel by volunteer Maya Threlfall at...

Christmas event draws big crowds

It might not have been December yet, but that was no deterrent to hundreds of families who flocked to Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday to begin their festive season.

Maintaining the health of the system

Southern District Health Board commissioner Kathy Grant deflects criticism during controversy...

Maintaining the health of the system

The Southern district is soon to have an elected health board once more. Four years after commissioner Kathy Grant was installed, along with deputy Richard Thomson, health reporter Mike Houlahan...

Gun debate well reasoned on both sides

MPs Clare Curran and Duncan Webb listen intently to select committee submissions on the Arms...

Gun debate well reasoned on both sides

Room two at the Dunedin Centre is an unlikely venue for an ideological struggle.

Decision flawed: reviews no excuse

Official documents released this week show the Southern District Health Board should never have closed the Lumsden primary birthing clinic and the service ought to be restored, the trust...

Plans afoot to ease issues in overloaded ED

The reception area at Dunedin Hospital Emergency Department. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.

Plans afoot to ease issues in overloaded ED

Help may be on the way for the Southern District Health Board’s under-siege emergency departments.

Submissions heard in Dunedin on gun law proposals

MPs (from left) Clare Curran, Duncan Webb, David Carter and David Seymour listen intently to...

Submissions heard in Dunedin on gun law proposals

Otago and Southland firearms owners acted in self-defence yesterday, several making submissions to a Parliamentary select committee considering gun control legislation.

Firms gain $513,000 of PGF funding

Otago Polytechnic automotive engineering student Issac Sonntag (18) works on an oil change, with...

Firms gain $513,000 of PGF funding

Otago engineering firms have received a further half million dollars of Provincial Growth Fund support.

Waiting lists are growing

Waiting lists are growing

The Southern District Health Board’s (SDHB) waiting lists for radiation oncology treatment are growing again.

SDHB has money to 'reflect community wishes’

Health Minister Julie Anne Genter says money is available to reflect the public’s wishes over the...

SDHB has money to 'reflect community wishes’

Money is available for the Southern District Health Board to ‘‘reflect the wishes of the community’’ regarding maternity services, Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter says.

Elected board poised to take DHB reins

Outgoing Southern District Health Board commissioners Kathy Grant and Richard Thomson, on the...

Elected board poised to take DHB reins

Southern District Health Board commissioner Kathy Grant chairs her final board meeting today.

Inventive pupil aims for the stars

Gore High School pupil Max Balloch is working with the European Space Agency. Photo: Supplied

Inventive pupil aims for the stars

Gore teenager Max Balloch has a busy life; studying for NCEA exams, working at his after-school job, and in his spare time co-ordinating an international effort to launch two satellites into space.

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