The "helplessness" of watching his 2-week-old son struggling to breathe and having nowhere to turn for help is part of the inspiration behind Mike Saegers seeking fast-track approval to build a new $300m hospital in Wānaka.
An unprepared group of day walkers were caught out overnight on Mt Brewster, near Haast Pass, last week, giving added credence to warnings about the overpromotion of the walk and the downplaying of...
On ODT Rugby Chat this week Paul Dwyer talks to a couple of the “old stagers”: Mackenzie (Macca) Palmer from Southern and Kaik centurion Jordan (the intercept king) McEntee-Walters.
Heidi Renata reckons her late father would be proud of a new scholarship which bears his name — "giving kids the chance to be something and do something".
More than $160,000 has been raised by Otago-based outdoor gear brand Kea Outdoors in its first week of an equity crowdfunding campaign on crowdfunding platform PledgeMe.
Rebecca Fox asks Otago-Southland chefs Haylee-Chanel Simeon, Hannes Barieter and Cameron Davies about the influence their mothers and grandmothers have had on their love of food.
Despite their users numbering in the millions, there’s little science to tell us whether dating apps work. But that might be about to change, reports Laura Spinney.
In my first column for Mana Wāhine last year, I shared that a recent discovery was that my grandmother had spent her first years living on ancestral land, immersed in her Māori world.
More wild weather is threatening to exacerbate a flooding catastrophe that has already killed at least 100 people and left more than 163,000 seeking shelter in southern Brazil.
Independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr had a parasite in his brain more than a decade ago, but has fully recovered, his campaign said.
There has been little fanfare about the Climate Change Commission’s current consultation on whether emissions from international shipping and aviation should be included in New Zealand’s 2050...
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the costs and benefits of pedestrianisation, the rise of political incompetents, and the benchmarks of health.