Paige Turner

More than 30,000 New Zealanders with type 2 diabetes will get easier access to four blood sugar medicines from September 1, after Pharmac widened its funding criteria. The medicines — empagliflozin, empagliflozin with metformin, liraglutide and dulaglutide — will now be funded for anyone with type 2 diabetes whose blood sugar

CareerFest Southland is already underway, and if you missed the school sessions today, there's still time to get along tonight. The free public session runs from 5pm to 7pm this evening at ILT Stadium Southland, with a second day on Friday from 9:45am to 1pm. Schools have

Gore District Council is staying in the room on local government reform — but making clear it hasn't agreed to anything yet. Following an extraordinary council meeting today, Gore agreed to keep exploring reform proposals from both Invercargill City Council and Southland District Council under the Government's

Nearly 500 New Zealand Army Reserve Force soldiers and 40 Australian Army Reservists have wrapped up a major warfighting exercise across Southland, culminating in a dawn attack near Waikaia. Exercise Tauwharenīkau — the Army's premier Reserve Force warfighting exercise — saw troops flown into Invercargill by C-130J Hercules before being

Te Anau Airport Manapōuri has been losing money since Southland District Council bought it in 2002. Whether that changes soon depends on what comes out of an RFP process that closed on June 12. The six-week request for proposals, managed by development agency Great South, sought private capital and expertise

When Lauryn Pinckney lost her first apprenticeship to redundancy, she nearly wrote off her chances of finding another one. Instead, she ended up somewhere better. Pinckney, who grew up on a farm near Edendale, graduated top of her class from Southern Institute of Technology's heavy automotive engineering programme

ACT wants disruptive students removed from classrooms — and is proposing a law to make it happen. ACT candidate Paul Henry announced the policy on Sunday, pitching it as straightforward: if a student disrupts the class and won't stop, the teacher directs them out. Refuse, and consequences follow. "

A Winton-raised military chaplain has been recognised for building a support system for SAS families that the New Zealand Defence Force has now adopted across its operations. Chaplain Class 3 Rich Lander received a Chief of Army Commendation in Auckland last week, following four years attached to the 1st New