Mike Houlahan

Southern health planners are continuing to develop protocols and plans should a case of Covid-19 coronavirus occur in the region, medical officer of health Susan Jack says.

Failed financial adviser Barry Kloogh is scheduled to appear in the Dunedin District Court tomorrow, the Otago Daily Times understands.

It is a case of back to the future for Queen Mary Maternity Centre, which is about to temporarily reopen one of its original theatres as part of a $1.6 million refurbishment.

The new Dunedin Hospital will have a primary birthing unit alongside its maternity ward, the Southern District Health Board has confirmed.

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Both sides in the row over possible redevelopment of Wanaka Airport argue that the other has acted unreasonably, court documents released to the Otago Daily Times show.

The Dunedin Fringe Festival is back in the great outdoors this year, holding a major event in the Octagon to mark International Race Relations Day.

A claim Treasury has rebuffed the business case for the new Dunedin hospital has been rejected by the Southern District Health Board.

A new Central Otago-Queenstown Lakes district electorate is inevitable but its time has not yet come, Representation Commission member Roger Sowry says.

Clutha residents are being left dizzy by regularly being shuffled between electorates, Clutha District mayor Bryan Cadogan says.

There will be a race to replace retiring Labour MP Clare Curran in Dunedin South, the party confirming there will be a contested selection to be its candidate in the general election.

The Southern District Health Board is unlikely to submit its budget to the Ministry of Health for approval by an early March deadline.

New does not really have political dynasties, but the Tirikatene family comes pretty close to the definition.

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Mataura is about to say goodbye to the almost 10,000 tonnes of ouvea premix stored in its former paper mill, but the potentially toxic chemical will remain in Southland.

Water plan changes were "stuffed up" by the Otago Regional Council and were an institutional failure on its part, councillor Michael Laws says.

Having ‘‘dodged a bullet’’ when flood waters this week threatened to inundate dangerous chemicals stored in Mataura, Gore District Council has acted swiftly to move the substance elsewhere.

Public consultation on Central Lakes maternity services has opened, but the health board is warning it might not meet its proposed June 30 deadline.