Hamish MacLean

The Government has come up with a second round of funding to help the Dunedin City Council clean up a toxic underground site in South Dunedin.

Trampolines were sent flying and a downed tree blocked traffic as gale-force gusts reached 100kmh and sowed disorder around Dunedin at the weekend.

Invercargill city councillor, broadcaster, and public transport enthusiast Marcus Lush took his 35,000 Twitter followers on a tour of Dunedin, yesterday, by bus.

It is beginning to look like more Otago Farmers Market vendors will make it to Christmas.

The Highlanders will not have to remove or change the Speight’s beer logo on the team jersey or in-stadium branding after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) was largely not...

Dramatic smoke in the skies above Queenstown is from a controlled burn, Fire and Emergency New Zealand says.

A Lilliput Library has vanished from a Dunedin neighbourhood.

New Zealand’s domestic flight network could become a world-leading example of low-carbon flight if a newly announced joint research project fulfils its promise.

The public will be heard on the proposal for a landfill near Brighton, the Otago Regional Council says.

Leaving a committee meeting after a conflict of interest issue was raised by the council chief executive was a mistake, the Otago Regional Council's chairman now says.

Environment Minister David Parker and Otago Regional Council chairman Andrew Noone have had an ‘‘initial’’ conversation following the recent call from some around the council table for the minister...

The taking of hazardous waste from the South Dunedin Gasworks tar pit to the Green Island Landfill has not been repeated since it was trialled in the 1990s, a Dunedin City Council spokesman has...

Reams of red tape could be one factor stopping the Dunedin City Council from deciding how to deal with a toxic site underground in South Dunedin.

The bird’s-eye views that winter grazing monitoring flights give Otago Regional Council staff have revealed no major breaches on Otago farms this year.

Councils and Crown agencies are starting to play a bigger role in dealing with Otago’s rabbit problem, the Otago Regional Council says.

The Dunedin City Council has more than doubled its fleet of electric vehicles this year.