As Port Otago's Next Generation project consents have not yet been resolved, the company is seeking a three-year renewal of maintenance dredging consents.
It might have been an excuse to skip a few English and art classes when he was 14, but six years later the Duke of Edinburgh Hillary Award is taking Dunedin student Mat Darling to Kenya.
The dead male elephant seal which washed up on Long Beach at the weekend will be buried today.
Young royal northern albatross are expected to start leaving the Taiaroa Head colony after what has been described as a successful breeding season.
Chances are slim another polar blast will hit the South in the next few weeks, but the possibility of a snow storm in spring still exists, a climate scientist says.
The polar blast which hit most of the region this week has also put a dampener on the start of the whitebait season in Otago.
The helicopter pilot who had been stranded on the remote Lammerlaw Range since Tuesday after extreme weather conditions forced him to land with four passengers arrived back in Queenstown in his helicopter yesterday.
Significant snow warnings for Otago have been lifted by MetService as the polar blast moves north.
There have been no sightings of the southern right whale entangled in a cray pot line off the coast of Otago, even by a marine science team returning from research in the Auckland Islands.
Daily energy demands reached record levels on Tuesday in many regions across New Zealand, including Otago and Southland.
Several people caught in a Ministry of Fisheries paua poaching operation this year have yet to be charged, even though those who bought the illegal paua from them have been convicted.
The polar blast eased in Otago yesterday as winds dropped and snow showers turned to rain, but roading contractors still battled to keep the region's highways open.
Dunedin can take small incremental steps towards improving its city centre, including investigating removing highway traffic from Crawford St and promoting a creative quarter around Queens Gardens, despite financial constraints, urban design Kobus Mentz says.
Competition between New Zealand sea lions and the squid fishery has been found to be the most likely cause of a decline in the threatened sea mammal in the Auckland Islands.
An attempt to destabilise his role as police commissioner in Tonga could have put the security of the country at risk if it was successful, former Dunedin policeman Chris Kelley says.
Snow and bitterly cold conditions, possibly worse than last month's snowfall which brought much of Otago, including Dunedin, to a standstill, are predicted for Sunday night.
Dunedin was unusually dry and sunny during July, with the city experiencing its fourth-lowest rainfall on record and second-highest sunshine hours for the month, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) figures show.
Redundant Thursday. Lotto winner Saturday.
A decision has been made to take down the mystery mural discovered in the Port Chalmers Garrison Hall.
Protesters holding placards with declarations such as "Drill, Spill and Kill" and "Don't Spoil our Coast" stood their ground outside a meeting between the Dunedin City Council and oil company Anadarko yesterday.
