Jono Edwards

The Otago Regional Council is continuing to privately discuss important issues.

Kasem Zar Zar (13, right) chases down the ball supported by team-mate Dylan Lloyd  (14) at a Halberg Disability Sport Foundation event at the weekend.

Even for people used to wildfires, a 5000-step slog will still turn up the internal thermostat.

Tidy Kiwis Lucas Petterson (10, left) and Jett Stevenson (8) drag bags filled with rubbish off Tomahawk Beach on Saturday.

Anglers say the state of rivers and lakes is "horrific" as E. coli rates worsen in nearly a third of Otago’s freshwater bodies.

Queenstown will join Dunedin in having  a day of free buses to encourage drivers out of their cars.

As some albatross chicks crash land this fledging season, Doc rangers are there to catch them.

The Otago Regional Council is in an "impossible" position after its schedule for minimum-flow setting was defeated, its chairman says.

"Frustration and uncertainty" loom over the contract for emergency helicopters in the lower South Island as callouts for the service spike.

Dunedin and Queenstown bus users are reporting high satisfaction with services as the Otago Regional Council increases bus trip frequency on some routes.

The Otago Regional Council spent $437,000 on what one councillor calls the ''blind alleys'' of a failed new headquarters bid in Dunedin.

A virus has cut Otago rabbit numbers by an average of 34%, but it is still less effective than some farmers expected.

A hole-in-one golf challenge proposal for Otago harbour is again on target as differences with neighbours are ironed out.

Simon Bishop’s "crappy" Toyota is miles away from the virtual supercars he is manoeuvering into the heights of the video game motorsport world.

An office building was destroyed at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter at the weekend in what was the second fire at the plant in a week.

Sirocco the kakapo entertains peering crowds on the first weekend of his Orokonui Ecosanctuary residency yesterday.

The "world’s most famous bird" has landed at Orokonui.

Forest & Bird says the future of Otago wetlands is at stake as it takes the Otago Regional Council and NZSki to court over development at the Remarkables.

Forest and Bird is taking the Otago Regional Council and NZ Ski to court over a protected wetland it says was destroyed by development on the Remarkables.