Artist Fay Mitchell holds her painting Saddle Hill Bleeding which will be the focal point of an exhibition of works featuring the controversial landmark next month. She is looking for people with existing images or paintings of the hill to lend, or recent artworks of it to sell, for the exhibition.
It's official, Otago really is the sunny South.
The family of the teenager who died after being trapped under a waterfall in the Motatapu Gorge at the weekend have described him as a "lively, sporty young man" and asked for privacy to grieve him.
Shane Hildred is used to having his occupation blamed for all the problems with New Zealand's waterways.
Changes afoot in regulations governing water use in Otago will influence the region's prosperity for years to come, the Otago Regional Council says. Rebecca Fox looks at the council's sometimes controversial approach to water quality and quantity.
Two young Dunedin boys will be very unhappy on Christmas Day as their much anticipated Christmas present, a trolley cart, has been stolen.
Dunedin airport recorded the highest national temperature yesterday, for the second time in less than a fortnight.
Dunedin scientists had an exciting opportunity to learn more about the rarely examined Arnoux beaked whale this week.
For the first time in three years, Otago Harbour fishermen are feeling positive about their summer fishing season.
A Ministry of Fisheries proposal to drop the sea lion mortality limit in the Auckland Islands squid fishery is "both bizarre and draconian", the New Zealand Sea Lion Trust says.
Spring in Otago was sunny, windy and wet, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) says.
Ben "Speedy" Thompson has shown there could be some truth to his self-proclaimed title of being the "fittest man in Dunedin".
The mooring dolphin (at right) was broken when the Kakariki with a tug passed the moored Mount Owen (pictured) in strong southwest winds at Ravensbourne fertiliser wharf earlier this week.
While Middlemarch recorded the country's highest November temperature of 29.5degC, most of Otago found the month cool and wet.
Summer started with a blaze of sunshine in Otago yesterday with Dunedin airport recording the highest official temperature in New Zealand - 29degC at 4pm.
Barbara Blake, with her dog Rupert, looks out into the surf from John Wilson Ocean Dr, Dunedin, from where she and her husband saw a white shark yesterday morning.
The official first day of summer has arrived, and sunny weather has been enticing Dunedin residents out of winter woollies and into togs.
Oceana Gold has appealed to the Environment Court claiming some conditions imposed on the resource consents to expand its Macraes Mine are "unnecessary and onerous".
British zoologist, photographer and presenter Mark Carwardine rates New Zealand as one of the best places in the world to view wildlife calling the country a "wildlife hotspot".
An Environment Ministry's guide to implementing the national policy statement for fresh water management has been described by the Otago Regional Council as a "crock" and full of inconsistencies.
