Hamish MacLean

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.

The Dunedin City Council will not get together with opponents of its landfill plans to thrash out concerns at a pre-hearing meeting, the Otago Regional Council says.

Retired High Court Judge Sir Graham Panckhurst has agreed to lead an inquiry into the Otago Regional Council, the council’s chairman says.

Dunedin was the only place in the country to set a cold-weather record last year, the hottest year in New Zealand’s history.

"Basically, we’ve got a month of summer, and then things are going to get really, really, quite ugly — unless we’re really lucky."

There are scars on the land near Cambrians that reveal the area’s mining past. The collection of houses that remain after its early gold rush beginnings only run about 1km along Cambrian Rd, but...

The Otago Regional Council took great strides towards establishing a fit-for-purpose planning regime last year, but the ORC’s stumbles gained greater attention in 2021. Hamish MacLean looks back at...

A Dunedin teenage piano virtuoso credits his 94-year-old piano teacher for his success.

"Basically, we’ve got a month of summer, and then things are going to get really, really, quite ugly — unless we’re really lucky."

University of Otago Covid-19 experts are not immune to the increasingly vitriolic attacks dished out to scientists commenting on New Zealand’s pandemic response.

Southern police have criticised behaviour on the roads during a deadly holiday period, saying poor driving was "everywhere they looked".