Mike Houlahan

Maintaining the health of the system

Southern District Health Board commissioner Kathy Grant deflects criticism during controversy...

Maintaining the health of the system

The Southern district is soon to have an elected health board once more. Four years after commissioner Kathy Grant was installed, along with deputy Richard Thomson, health reporter Mike Houlahan...

Gun debate well reasoned on both sides

MPs Clare Curran and Duncan Webb listen intently to select committee submissions on the Arms...

Gun debate well reasoned on both sides

Room two at the Dunedin Centre is an unlikely venue for an ideological struggle.

Decision flawed: reviews no excuse

Decision flawed: reviews no excuse

Official documents released this week show the Southern District Health Board should never have closed the Lumsden primary birthing clinic and the service ought to be restored, the trust...

Plans afoot to ease issues in overloaded ED

The reception area at Dunedin Hospital Emergency Department. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.

Plans afoot to ease issues in overloaded ED

Help may be on the way for the Southern District Health Board’s under-siege emergency departments.

Submissions heard in Dunedin on gun law proposals

MPs (from left) Clare Curran, Duncan Webb, David Carter and David Seymour listen intently to...

Submissions heard in Dunedin on gun law proposals

Otago and Southland firearms owners acted in self-defence yesterday, several making submissions to a Parliamentary select committee considering gun control legislation.

Firms gain $513,000 of PGF funding

Otago Polytechnic automotive engineering student Issac Sonntag (18) works on an oil change, with...

Firms gain $513,000 of PGF funding

Otago engineering firms have received a further half million dollars of Provincial Growth Fund support.

Waiting lists are growing

The Southern District Health Board’s (SDHB) waiting lists for radiation oncology treatment are growing again.

SDHB has money to 'reflect community wishes’

Health Minister Julie Anne Genter says money is available to reflect the public’s wishes over the...

SDHB has money to 'reflect community wishes’

Money is available for the Southern District Health Board to ‘‘reflect the wishes of the community’’ regarding maternity services, Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter says.

Elected board poised to take DHB reins

Outgoing Southern District Health Board commissioners Kathy Grant and Richard Thomson, on the...

Elected board poised to take DHB reins

Southern District Health Board commissioner Kathy Grant chairs her final board meeting today.

Inventive pupil aims for the stars

Gore High School pupil Max Balloch is working with the European Space Agency. Photo: Supplied

Inventive pupil aims for the stars

Gore teenager Max Balloch has a busy life; studying for NCEA exams, working at his after-school job, and in his spare time co-ordinating an international effort to launch two satellites into space.

Not too much football over mental health

Health Minister David Clark. PHOTO: THE NZ HERALD

Not too much football over mental health

In December, when the long-awaited report on mental health and addiction services was released, its authors included within its 219 pages a plea to politicians not use the subject as a political...

Eight deaths among DHB adverse events

Eight people's deaths while in the care of the Southern District Health Board are among 48 cases recorded in the organisation's latest adverse events report.

'Huge implications' in boundary changes

Much of the Clutha River will no longer be in the Clutha-Southland electorate under draft electorate boundary changes released.

Enough to make a red seat blue?

House prices are expected to rise next year. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery

Could boundary changes make a red Dunedin seat blue?

The southern electoral map is likely to be completely redrawn following the release of draft electorate boundary changes.

Boundary changes likely for the South

Boundary changes likely for the South

Draft electorate boundary changes due to be announced today will result in major changes proposed for the Dunedin seats, the Otago Daily Times understands.

''Crocodile tears and pathetic excuses''. That is how one man who lost his life savings through investing with failed financial adviser Barry Kloogh has reacted to an exclusive ODT interview with Mr Kloogh.

'If I was able to repay all that money I absolutely would'

'If I was able to repay all that money I absolutely would'

Earlier this year, Barry Kloogh hoped to buy one of Dunedin's most prestigious houses. Yesterday, he lodged the paperwork to file for personal bankruptcy.

'Ashamed': Kloogh breaks silence

Failed investment adviser Barry Kloogh has broken his silence, telling the Otago Daily Times he has filed for personal bankruptcy and that he was aware he had betrayed people's trust.

Opportunity taken to grieve for pets at memorial service

Helen O’Sullivan points out Norman, her miniature schnauzer, who died in July and who was fondly...

Opportunity taken to grieve for pets at memorial service

All creatures great and small were remembered yesterday, at a special service at Gillions Funeral Services.

Tenancy law plan concerns

Tenancy law plan concerns

Otago landlords want an urgent meeting with the University of Otago and students' associations after proposed rental law changes they say could profoundly alter the city's student rental market.

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