Mike Houlahan

For many MPs, Tuesday was their first time back at Parliament for several weeks.

National's South Island MPs have joined forces to ask Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to explain why the island is at Covid-19 Alert Level 2.

Two years after the southern mental health service introduced mental health advance preference statements (Maps), it is about to evaluate how successful they have been.

The latest Covid-19 lockdown has affected the mental health of Southerners and been especially hard for young people, clinicians say.

While Covid-19 has seen the legislative work of Parliament largely fall by the wayside, select committees have still been hard at work, both via Zoom meetings and through drafting of reports.

The South’s Covid-19 vaccination rollout has hit top gear, and the region is leading the country in numbers of people who have had the first of their two shots of the Pfizer vaccine.

National leader Judith Collins says she is absolutely confident she will remain at the helm of her party.

Seventeen women have been cleared of having cancer as part of an urgent reassessment of 60 breast scans performed on Otago and Southland women.

Dozens of Otago and Southland women face an anxious few weeks after being recalled for mammograms and other breast assessments to be redone.

Gynaecologists in the South have started using a new technique which both reduces trauma for their patients and makes operations such as a hysterectomy much easier for surgeons.

Arts scene doyenne Barbara Brinsley is concerned the true value of the Dunedin Hospital art collection is being overlooked, both in the current hospital and the future one.

The South returned to Covid-19 Alert Level 2 this week, and with it life for our MPs returned to something a little closer to normality.

The combination of a second Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown and planned strike action by nurses make it inevitable the Southern District Health Board will have to outsource more operations, a report to...

The Southern District Health Board, like 14 other DHBs, has failed to meet the deadline to implement safe staffing requirements.

More than 90% of Dunedin people were not regularly using the Covid-19 scanning app before the latest Alert Level 4 lockdown.

Ward 11 at Wakari Hospital is to close, as the Southern District Health Board begins to implement the recommendations of its review of mental health and addiction services.

Southerners trying to kick addictions to hard drugs are having to wait two years to gain treatment.