Hamish MacLean

Nearly $12 million in capital spending has been shaved off Dunedin’s draft budget as the Dunedin City Council faces a proposed 6.5% increase in the rates take.

The search for Vinnie Beecroft ended yesterday when his body was found near where he went missing nearly three days earlier.

Landowners at a troubled Otago waterway could ultimately see "boots on the ground" after Otago regional councillors decided not to let another scientific report "sit on a desk and gather dust".

Limiting interim consents replacing 100-year-old mining water rights to just seven years will stifle development of agribusiness in the region and have "significant repercussions" for the economy,...

A pager goes off and suddenly St John emergency medical technician Sandra Wilson’s day has changed.

If Baldwin St reclaims its title as the world’s steepest street, new rules for residents-only traffic could be revisited.

Unusual visitors could start turning up on coastal Otago beaches.

A photograph of a strange-looking bird in a Dunedin backyard is causing a flutter in birding circles.

A 24-apartment aged-care home is planned in the Dunedin suburb of Roslyn, on the site of the now demolished New World building.

One person suffered minor injuries after a tractor rolled in Chain Hills Rd, near Mosgiel, this morning.

The developers of an ocean-facing 22-unit boutique luxury accommodation complex in Tyne St are ‘‘not front page people’’ and have declined to answer Otago Daily Times questions about their Oamaru...

While the mystery around fuel seeping into Oamaru Harbour remains, summer recreational water testing has begun and the results so far have been ‘‘very good’’.

A health and safety risk assessment will be done before the Waitaki District Council applies to allow the public back on to the breakwater at Oamaru Harbour.