The government needs to stop using a pathology building as a "smokescreen" and get on with building a new regional hospital inpatient building in Dunedin as promised, an insider says.
Port Chalmers Historical Society president Kaye Henderson and committee member Shirley Jack were adding the final touches to the Port Chalmers Maritime Museum displays yesterday.
South Dunedin streets were dry yesterday and only Forbury Park remained under water after the low-lying suburb was once again inundated by an overwhelming amount of rain.
New Zealand needs a national response to climate change adaptation challenges, "not just bespoke responses where councils go off and do their own thing", the Prime Minister says.