Allison Rudd

Enrolments are well up at Otago Polytechnic, but chief executive Phil Ker has told his council members "not to get excited yet".

Plastic milk containers make up about 15-20% of the items recycled through Dunedin City Council "blue bins".

After decades of disposing of their refuse then forgetting about it, Dunedin residents are finally embracing the concept of recycling.

After almost 160 years of mixed fortunes, Mosgiel is approaching another tough time as major employers close or lay off staff.

She won't win any water speed records and her owners describe her as "a box squeezed at both ends", but Gentle has served Rod and Leonie Haines well.

For archivist Vivienne Cuff, cataloguing more than 2000 photographs and negatives of Dunedin's television broadcasting industry has been a trip down memory lane.

A series of intriguing portraits of some of Otago's more exotic early settlers have been made accessible to a worldwide audience.

She doesn't know how, and she doesn't know when, but Dunedin student Kathy Impey is determined to return to South Africa one day.

University of Otago vice-chancellor and medical researcher Prof David Skegg has been awarded one of the highest accolades in the New Year honours list.

Alistair Regan is a happy man. After years of negotiations, planning and funding applications, the Otago Institute of Design is about to become a reality.

Earlier this year, Otago Polytechnic won the tender to organise the Sustainable Habitat Challenge '09, a competition encouraging tertiary institutions to team up with architects, builders, product suppliers, community groups and local authorities to design and build sustainable and environmentally-friendly houses.

Farmers, gardeners and foresters all give nature a helping hand, and Dunedin fish scientist Bob Street says a similar approach with the Bluff oyster resource is beginning to pay dividends.

Trustpower will be able to erect up to 100 turbines at its proposed Mahinerangi wind farm, the Environment Court has decided.

The Uplands Protection Society will take legal advice before it decides whether it will pay almost $50,000 in costs ordered by the High Court, its spokesman says.

The University of Otago has paid $6.8 million, excluding GST, for the former Wickliffe printers' site.

When Otago Polytechnic students Craig Scott and Simon Horner sat down to discuss their major project for their second-year bachelor of design communication studies, they aimed high.