A South Otago rugby player was flown by Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter to Dunedin Hospital on Saturday after he was injured during a senior reserve game against Dunedin in Kaitangata.
If resource consent is granted, the experimental weirs holding water in the lower Water of Leith will remain.
The first campus harvest festival has been hailed a success and hopes are it has raised the community garden's profile with students.
If you put away your Otago Regional Council rates bill until the end of the year to pay, take note - you will be charged a penalty sooner this year.
An independent report on about a third of Otago dairy farms has shown 66% could meet the Otago Regional Council's proposed standards for nitrogen leaching.
Increasing the concentration of 1080 in carrot bait used to control rabbits is one of the measures suggested in a new study on the way aerial baiting is carried out in New Zealand.
Measures to prevent extensive damage to its flood-protection works on the Taieri during an earthquake are planned by the Otago Regional Council in coming years.
If it has a loop in it, cut it before throwing it out, the Department of Conservation (Doc) says.
The arrival at Orokonui Ecosanctuary of a pair of rare takahe has been delayed after one injured its foot.
Six months out from the deadline for all Otago's rabbit-prone properties to meet the pest management strategy's limits, not all will meet the target, the Otago Regional Council says.
Otago Peninsula Community Board has supported the move to notify providers of maps to GPS manufacturers of problem routes on the peninsula.
Fagasa (Organisation for the maintenance and teaching of Samoan language) members, (from left), Afamasaga Pavihi (head bowed) and Daez Pavihi, both of Dunedin, Sinaenae Tolai, of Invercargill, and CJ Sopaga and Tauvao Fuiavailiili, both of Dunedin, take part in a kava ceremony at the Holy Cross Centre in Mosgiel yesterday.
Alternative sites for cruise ships to anchor in Fiordland World Heritage Park will need to be found after the discovery of fragile new and protected species of marine life, Environment Southland says.
Alison Shanks, of Dunedin, ensured New Zealand's UCI Track Cycling World Championships ended on a high, blitzing her way to a gold medal in the individual pursuit in Melbourne last night.
A community group is calling for an arts strategy to be developed for Dunedin and is urging people to make submissions to the Dunedin City Council's long-term council community plan in support of the concept.
It was a chilly but very sunny March for Otago.
Nature documentary Primeval New Zealand, produced by Dunedin-based television company NHNZ, has won three awards at an international wildlife film festival.
University of Otago media, film and communications senior lecturer Dr Erika Pearson and department of applied sciences systems manager Grant Baxter talk about the future of the book at the inaugural Centre for the Book symposium "The Book: A life cycle" at Hutton Theatre yesterday.
An 11.8-tonne reduction in the amount of rock lobster able to be caught this season is estimated to cost the Otago commercial fishery about $660,800.
In two weeks, Andre Klein will be running days and into the night for six days but he has yet to work out the best training regime for the TrackWalk for CatWalk.
