Rough week: another one bites the dust
Another week, another southern MP steps down.
Mike Houlahan
Patients, nature at heart of clinic redesign
Patients, nature at heart of clinic redesign
Despite the Covid-19 shutdown and winter weather, mental health facility Ashburn Clinic is confident its new inpatient wing will be open by December.
National’s leak crisis deepens
National’s leak crisis deepens
National’s crisis over the leak of Covid-19 patient details deepened yesterday when senior frontbench MP Michael Woodhouse admitted he was involved.
Hammer blow
Hammer blow
Southlanders say they will fight to the last breath to save more than 1000 jobs in danger of being lost after the owner of Tiwai Point aluminium smelter yesterday announced the plant would close.
Tiwai closure: Govt promises support
Smelter closure: Govt promises support to Southland
The Government says it will support the Southland economy following today's news that Rio Tinto plans to close the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter next year.
So much promise from a passionate southern MP
So much promise from a passionate southern MP
For Hamish Walker, being a southern MP was a life’s ambition.
Walker quits before pushed
Walker quits before pushed
People living in the current Clutha-Southland electorate will have their fourth MP in seven years after MP Hamish Walker’s political career came to a sudden and ignominious end yesterday.
Farmers paying on land lost to erosion
Farmers paying on land lost to erosion
Farmers whose properties are alongside the Waitaki River are irate they are being charged rates on land which has been washed away.
Walker’s future in doubt
Walker’s future in doubt
Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker’s political future looks bleak, after he yesterday admitted sending the private details of Covid-19 patients to media outlets.
Widow calls for improved cancer service
Widow calls for improved cancer service
Melissa Vining yesterday confronted the Southern District Health Board, which she feels failed her husband and people like him, and urged it to do better for cancer patients.
Dunedin first choice for managed isolation facilities in South
Dunedin first choice for managed isolation facilities in South
Dunedin is the Southern District Health Board’s first choice should managed Covid-19 isolation facilities be set up in the South.
Walker apology after revealing Covid patients' details
Walker apology after revealing Covid patients' details
Clutha Southland MP Hamish Walker has outed himself as the person who sent the details of Covid-19 patients to news media outlets and has apologised.
Impassioned cancer plea after husband's death
Impassioned cancer plea after husband's death
An emotional Melissa Vining this morning confronted the Southern District Health Board and challenged it to improve its cancer care services.
High gas use still a mystery
High gas use still a mystery
The great laughing gas mystery is no laughing matter for the Southern District Health Board, which has still not uncovered why it uses so much nitrous oxide.
Cancer diagnoses curtailed
Cancer diagnoses curtailed
The southern region had the largest drop in cancer diagnoses nationwide during Covid-19 Alert Level 4 and 3, but regional hospitals are bracing for a surge in patients soon.
New ICU may get dedicated air system
New ICU may get dedicated air system
A new dedicated air conditioning system may be commissioned in an attempt to get the Southern District Health Board’s multimillion-dollar intensive care unit development fully open for patients.
SDHB struggling to finish ICU project
SDHB struggling to finish ICU project
The Southern District Health Board has no idea when the second stage of its multimillion-dollar intensive care unit development will be able to receive patients.
Covid takes toll on SDHB balance sheet
Covid takes toll on SDHB balance sheet
Fighting Covid-19 has cost the cash-strapped Southern District Health Board more than $7 million so far, on top of an estimated $6.85 million in lost revenue.
72 jobs in South on cards
72 jobs in South on cards
September's election looms as a debate over who has the best economic policies, underlined by Jacinda Ardern devoting her party congress speech to Labour’s Covid-19 recovery plans
‘It seems a much better time to hand on the reins’
‘It seems a much better time to hand on the reins’
Dunedin North MP David Clark says he never considered leaving politics, despite his resignation as a minister this week.