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The team behind Amity Medical Centre, Dunedin’s first Health Care Home (from left) practice nurse Anna Boyd, Dr Susie Lawless and practice manager Catherine Daly-Reeve. Photo: Gerard O'Brien Four southern GP practices have taken the first step towards a new way of delivering primary healthcare, becoming "Health Care Homes".

Janine Southby Just over six weeks ago, Otago was home to two of the most important coaches in New Zealand sport — now neither of them are there.

Dave Cull The Otago Regional Council’s long-awaited plan for a new headquarters has suffered another setback, after its bid to buy a central Dunedin site collapsed.

There is much talk about a new hospital for Queenstown. Tracey Roxburgh talks to the people with the ideas.

Gary Kelliher Central Otago farmers are taking matters into their own hands in the minimum flow saga.

Jane Turner Annual net migration fell to below 65,000 in June, largely led by non-New Zealand citizens leaving the country.

Small firms remained concerned about finding skilled staff. Photo: Getty Images Business confidence among small firms fell to a nine-year low in the three months ended June, according to the ANZ Quarterly Business Micro Scope survey.

Photo: Stephen Jaquiery Busy in the quiet season is Simon Donaldson, of Rosedale Orchard, pruning peach trees at his orchard near Roxburgh.

The aftermath of a car hitting Pack and Send in Queenstown yesterday morning. Photo: Joshua Walton A car crashed into a shop window in Queenstown early yesterday. Police said the car went into the front of the Pack and Send shop in Earl St at 4.20am.

Suzette van Aswegen Mackenzie District Council chief executive Suzette van Aswegen has been named chairwoman of a joint-agency land-management group to oversee camping in the Waitaki and Mackenzie Basins.

A $278 million government fillip is needed to maintain Queenstown as New Zealand’s tourist mecca, a new report shows.

Michael Voss Two rubber roundabouts could be installed roughly 1km apart near Oamaru’s town centre.

Craig Rowley Mackenzie, Waimate and Waitaki district councils have joined together to say one councillor is not enough for South Canterbury, as Environment Canterbury (ECan) returns to a fully democratically elected council.

Cameron Bagrie Economist Cameron Bagrie says a lack of labour could stifle Southland’s full economic potential.

Chris Swann A review of the layout of Oamaru Hospital now under way aims to determine the best way to ensure the "efficient operation" of the hospital, Waitaki District Health Services Ltd chairman Chris Swann says.

Lawrence to Waihola Clutha Gold Trail extension group chairman David Vollweiler (pictured) is excited the group has engaged ‘‘world class’’ trail designer Tim Dennis to design the first phase of the trail from Milton, to Calder Stewart’s headquarters northeast of the town. Photo: Richard Davison A group working to extend the Clutha Gold Trail from Lawrence to Milton in South Otago has taken a big step forward by hiring a "world class" trail designer.

Ian Bray A Scottish man said he was "turned down" and "sent away" when he tried to attend Dunstan Hospital with a heart problem and has complained to the Health and Disability Commissioner.

US President Donald Trump signs a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China. Photo: Reuters History shows us trade wars often cause world wars and historians are urging global leaders to show restraint as tensions on global trade escalate.

Global trade tensions escalate as governments try to counter US President Donald Trump’s trade policy. Photo: Getty Images As United States President Donald Trump was meeting  Russian President Vladimir Putin, and creating global headlines for all the wrong reasons, Japan and the European Union quietly signed EU’s largest-ever bilateral trade agreement. Business editor Dene Mackenzie writes about the ongoing global tensions around trade and tariffs and the major announcements made in this week alone.