Steve Hepburn

A massive operation to control pests is more than two-thirds completed in the South Island — over an area three times the size of Stewart Island — and early results appear promising.

Patient advocate Melissa Vining says she cried and felt physically hurt in her heart to see cancer lists lengthening in the South.

The decrease of the subsidy for a transport assistance scheme will leave disabled people with fewer options and feeling like they are no longer a full member of society, a disability advocate says.

Otago mayors say they are keen to get involved in new local government reforms, but have sounded warnings over workload, equity and maintaining a local voice.

As far as workplace training goes, it is at the top end of extreme.

The health and disability commissioner has received two complaints about the Oxford Court rest-home this year.

A family who own an old Kinloch crib, which features in a soon-to-be-released Brad Pitt movie, has won support to keep the 87-year-old "absolutely iconic" structure.

A Central Otago man says a council sending him a $1000 bill to pay some rates he thought he had paid felt arrogant and imperious.

There should be enough houses in Queenstown for everybody in decades to come, but limits on industrial, commercial and retail land loom, a new report suggests.

Glenn McKay is not your ordinary doctor.

The Total Mobility scheme in Otago is to remain in its current form, but a warning has been sounded change must come — and sooner rather than later.

A former Otago Regional Council chairwoman says she is sick of the negativity about the council, wants it to remain and much of the talk around its destruction were "simplified anecdotes".