Mike Houlahan

Southern District Health Board chief allied health, scientific and technical officer Lynda McCutcheon believes she is retiring on a high.

The annual flu season is tracking well below a low rate of the disease, but more New Zealanders are testing positive to the illness than normal.

Ten months ago, the Southern District Health Board finished a review of its maternity services. There has been controversy ever since. Health reporter Mike Houlahan looks...

There are many half-truths and untruths told in politics, the biggest of them all being "I don't pay attention to polls".

Anxious investors who used Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh have expressed frustration at a lack of information about the fate of their money.

At the age of "just coming up to 81" Russel Partel has made the hard call that he is no longer up to being a firefighter.

A sudden surge in the number of young Maori being admitted to hospital has alarmed the WellSouth primary health organisation.

The Southern District Health Board has the fourth-highest deficit of the country's 20 DHBs, new figures show.

One person in a St Kilda house was taken to Dunedin Hospital with minor injuries this afternoon, after fire broke out in the building.

Hitting the Ministry of Health target for elective procedures taking place within 120 days of an appointment being made is a priority, the Southern District Health Board's new electives services...

An Otago man who has waited more than two years for an elective procedure says the 120-day target for his operation is ''a farce''.

Toni Vivier is scheduled to give birth in Winton, but the Te Anau woman is worried her new baby will arrive at an unknown point between home and there.

Mercy Hospital in Dunedin is the only hospital in New Zealand accredited to provide coeliac-safe gluten-free food for patients.

The fraught relationship between the Southern District Health Board and the operators of the Lumsden Maternity Centre has deteriorated further, as the SDHB opted not to send a representative to a...

Dunedin's next Nadia Reid or Martin Phillipps may have taken the first steps of their musical career on Saturday, when Taieri College hosted the Otago heats of the annual Smokefreerockquest.

A fire alarm prevented an Invercargill school suffering serious damage due to a suspicious fire early this morning, police say.

Computers and government have been a major issue this past fortnight with the fallout from National accessing Budget data still proving dangerously radioactive to a range of politicians and civil...

The next stage of the revamp of the southern primary healthcare system is about to begin, as Alliance South seeks expressions of interest in developing community health hubs.

Strong demand for flu vaccinations has resulted in treatment supplies running low.