Timothy Brown

The start of the Australian school holidays was meant to be a lifeline for Queenstown's beleaguered businesses, instead that lifeblood has been cut off.

The government has closed the trans-Tasman… Video, Audio

Southerners feel like they're paying the price for the Government's $800 million Northern Pathway project.

Councils around the country are having to cut back on planned spending after $420 million of… Audio

Dunedin teenager Erika Fairweather was today officially announced as a member of New Zealand's Olympic team at her school assembly.

The 17-year-old Kavanagh College student will likely be the… Video, Audio

It took just 15 minutes for the Department of Conservation's accommodation on the Milford Track to fill up for the entire six-month season this morning.

Tourism operators hope it's a sign there's… Audio

Those in industries reliant on higher emission vehicles say the government's clean car package unfairly targets them when no viable alternatives exist.

Fees of up to almost six thousand dollars will… Audio

The long weekend brought a glut of tourists to the North and South Island's unofficial tourism capitals.

While leaders in Queenstown and Rotorua suspect the vast majority were New Zealanders… Audio

Plans are being laid by a citizens coalition in Invercargill to topple Sir Tim Shadbolt as Mayor, come next year's local body elections.

The city is already on course for its fourth deputy mayor in… Audio

There's been a thawing of the relationship between New Zealand Rugby and the Players Association with a meeting in Wellington today.

On the agenda was an alternative to the proposed $387 million… Video, Audio

Now to Invercargill, where Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt's driver's licence has created the latest flashpoint for ructions around the council table.

Sir Tim's licence has been suspended - that's been… Audio

A group of doctors, researchers and cancer care campaigners are calling for a public inquiry into what they say is Southern DHB's failing colonoscopy service.

A scathing article by Professor Brian… Audio

To Dunedin, where trans-Tasman Super Rugby will make a return for the first time since mid-March last year when the season was canned due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Tonight the Highlanders… Video, Audio

The Southland Charity Hospital is another step closer to reality with the issuing of building consent to get construction under way.

Consent was approved yesterday, just in time to mark late cancer… Audio

The University of Otago wants the ability to fine students who have let the rubbish at their flats get out of control.

It is among a raft of changes proposed to the university's Code of Student… Audio

An oncologist from Southern District Health Board says cancer patients are suffering and dying because they are missing out on vital scans such as MRIs.

His scathing comments in an email to the DHB… Audio

A top surgeon and a cancer researcher have accused the Ministry of Health of letting the Southern District Health Board join the National Bowel Screening Programme too early saying the decision has… Audio

What do you get when you combine eight Southlanders, a 1980s-era tractor and almost 600 kilometres of state highway?

Well, a step closer to better health care in the south if all goes to plan.

A… Audio

A group of Southlanders is about to set off on a two-day, 1200 kilometre road trip on a tractor to raise money for the Southland Charity Hospital.

The hospital is the idea of Southlanders Blair and… Audio

Former Dunedin Mayor, Dave Cull, has died at the age of 71 after a battle with cancer.

Cull served as mayor for three terms from 2010 - and was elected president of Local Government New Zealand in… Audio

Convicted murderer, Venod Skantha, died in prison yesterday soon after learning his appeal had been dismissed.

It is thought the 33-year-old, who was serving a life sentence for the murder of Dunedin… Video, Audio

The former Dunedin doctor who murdered teenager Amber-Rose Rush is understood to have taken his own life behind bars. Venod Skantha had his appeal against his murder conviction tossed out by the Court… Audio