Steve Hepburn

Questions are mounting for the operators of the under-fire Manage My Health portal as a leading University of Otago medical academic has been called in by the company as an adviser.

A large Dunedin medical centre consulted lawyers and the Privacy Commission to try to take information off the beleaguered Manage My Health portal.

The manager at the centre of much of the controversy around incidents at the Oxford Court rest-home in Dunedin has resigned and already left her job.

A southern health leader says the breach of information on a popular health portal was a "complete failure" by the private company running it, and exposed the most sensitive patient details.

The long-awaited summer in the South is taking its time arriving, especially in Dunedin, where cloud and a lack of sunshine marked the peak holiday period.

A meeting later this month is set to decide how much time will be needed for the controversial Santana Minerals Bendigo mine application but the company is sticking to asking for a 30-day timeframe.

Another personal grievance against management at Oxford Court rest-home has emerged, saying the complex was unsafe and it was an understatement to say bullying was a daily occurrence.

This turntable-ladder fire truck turned heads in 1968, Steve Hepburn reports.

Opponents of the planned Slopedown wind farm say they have been blatantly lied to, windpower was unreliable and inefficient and a silent majority supporting the wind farm does not exist.

It was an early start for many but they must have known the weather was going to turn a tad damp.

It was the inaugural visit to Dunedin for a vessel which is small in size but big on taste.

Adrenaline took over for a Waitati man when he came face to face with a 4m great white shark off Karitane on Sunday afternoon.

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.