Hamish MacLean

At a pivotal moment in the development of Otago’s land and water plan, public debate was stymied at this week’s strategy and planning meeting, the committee’s co-chairwoman says.

When New Zealand country fans of the 1960s were looking for a new sound, southern musician John Hore Grenell was swept into the spotlight.

For 24 hours drums in Dunedin’s city centre will beat for the people of Tonga.

A setback in the High Court could delay the Otago Regional Council’s anticipated fit-for-purpose freshwater plans.

The Otago Regional Council’s attempt to fast-track a major planning document has been struck down in the High Court.

The Dunedin City Council may seek to relax rules around developing landfills near wetlands, but says its proposal for a landfill at Smooth Hill was not a deciding factor in shaping its views.

The cross-council project under way to help South Dunedin adapt to climate change should produce a "high-level" list of options by the middle of next year, its programme manager says.

It was definitely not Lorna Watts’ first Parkrun at the weekend.

Only a few years ago Georgia Hawthorne was crying in a supermarket toilet awaiting the results of a pregnancy test.

The last thing Dunedin wants is "a Gerry Brownlee-type figure" to come in and start trying to solve South Dunedin’s problems, a regional councillor says.

Dunedin's government-backed video game development initiative has marked a major milestone.

Forest & Bird’s new Otago Southland regional conservation manager has spent the last eight years working in local government and says she hopes to use that experience to her advantage.

The Dunedin City Council may have underestimated the risk to human health posed by a proposed landfill near Brighton, an Otago Regional Council report says.

Aurora Energy has installed temporary generators in Makarora after heavy snow left the Otago township without power over the weekend.

An estimated 7000 people attended this year’s scaled-back Dunedin Midwinter Carnival at the weekend.