Broad Bay cemetery may eventually be extended, following the purchase of an adjacent strip of land by the Dunedin City Council. The 0.0439ha section containing a shed has a capital value of $129,00 and was purchased by the council in September.
After four and a-half years, agreements are almost finalised for after-hours health care for more than 100,000 patients in the Dunedin and Taieri-Strath Taieri areas.
Final results of a survey showing little support for public funding of the Otago Stadium have been both dismissed and hailed.
Against the background of rumours he may be replaced, Otago District Health Board chairman Richard Thomson will meet Health Minister Tony Ryall today.
Health Minister Tony Ryall will not be drawn on rumours he is planning to replace Otago District Health Board chairman Richard Thomson, but he has not ruled out the possibility either.
While there is plenty of goodwill in relationships between mental health service providers and the Otago District Health Board, there is " frustration all round" at the lack of progress in service development.
More houses were sold in Otago last December than in November, and at a higher median price, although property values fell during the year in keeping with the national trend.
Nearly a year after having a massive brainstem stroke, Warren Palmer's sense of humour is as lively as ever.
More roles for nurse practitioners may be developed by the Otago District Health Board following the success of the the two already employed.
The life expectancy of a Plunket Society service supporting women in Dunedin with post-natal depression has been extended even before it starts.
A Plunket Society service to support women with post-natal depression will begin in Dunedin soon, but demand is expected to exceed its capacity.
Some patients attending Dunedin Hospital's emergency department next month may get speedier treatment than usual.
Ignorance in some of its costumes can be a holiday killer, but its value as a survival mechanism in that twilight zone which is the silly season, is often overlooked.
Concern that specialties such as intensive care will find it increasingly difficult to attract young doctors because they will not want to do "after hours" work has been raised by Dunedin Hospital's intensive care clinical leader Mike Hunter.
Changing work patterns for doctors is one of the issues being considered in planning for the future medical workforce, University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine dean Dr John Adams said.
Concerns about recreational boating rules raised last year by Otago-Southland coroner David Crerar in his findings into the death of a girl hit by a speedboat on Lake Te Anau are still under consideration.
The economic situation prompted Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre to delay redevelopment of its Hanover St premises, but it hopes to reconsider its position by the end of this financial year.
Otago and Southland district health boards enter the new year with a new regional management structure, although it differs from that originally proposed in October.
In the early part of our courtship, the man in my life endearingly described me as wrong-headed and stuck in the '70s.
Dunedin couple Kelli and Parviz Najafi, whose twins made history at their birth last May, experienced lows and highs last year.
