Hamish MacLean

A hospitality operator who runs bars in Queenstown and Australia says there is light at the end of the Omicron tunnel, but New Zealanders and the Government need to change their attitude to Covid-19.

Two weeks have been set aside in autumn for public hearings into the Dunedin City Council’s contentious Smooth Hill landfill proposal.

Otago Regional Council deputy chairman Michael Laws has called Otago Fish & Game’s criticism of his Dunstan ward colleague unfair and unappreciative of the Manuherikia issue.

Otago regional councillors have agreed to new ground rules for an inquiry into the council they govern at a councillor-only closed-door meeting last week.

The first school in the South to be hit by a positive Covid case among its pupils in the Omicron outbreak was "calm but quiet" yesterday.

Otago Fish & Game is calling for an investigation as it alleges "disturbing" behind-the-scenes dealings of an Otago regional councillor.

Covid-19 is settling into the South — it has spread to Invercargill and Gore, after confirmation of its arrival in Dunedin and Queenstown.

A man with a rare genetic disorder says he has fallen through the cracks of the system that should have been helping him for the past 15 years.

A Dunedin man with a rare genetic disorder says he has fallen through the cracks of the system that should have been helping him for the past 15 years.

Viruses that blackbirds, thrushes, goldfinches and other introduced songbirds brought into New Zealand could be spreading among native species.

The Dunedin City Council expects to have a plan in place to deal with its multimillion-dollar toxic mess underground in South Dunedin by the middle of the year.

Successive years of successful breeding seasons could one day put Dunedin on the map as just the second mainland breeding colony of the threatened New Zealand sea lion in the past 150 years.

A Port Otago deckhand was seriously injured in a workplace fall yesterday afternoon.

The summer holidays have interrupted a multimillion-dollar project to restore Te Rauone Beach in Otago Harbour.

A decision has yet to be made on the future of Dunedin’s Green Island Landfill, the Dunedin City Council says.

The Ministry of Health has revealed new Covid-19 locations of interest on its website this evening which includes places in Queenstown and Hokitika, on the West Coast.

Central Otago claimed hottest spot in the country yesterday as temperatures soared under sunny skies.