Although the popular eDay computer waste programmes will not go ahead this year, permanent electronic waste depots have been set up around the country, including three in Otago, and they will also take televisions - for a fee.
Environment Ministry suggestions that numerical targets be set for how much water can be taken and targets for water quality are impractical, Otago Regional Council chairman Graeme Martin says.
Changes to the criteria for large dams is a "cunning piece of manipulation" that will leave regional councils with the liability if an exempt dam fails, Otago Regional Council chief executive Graeme Martin said.
An architect has been hired by the Otago Regional Council to find solutions to the shortage of space in its Stafford St office.
Lying on the side of the road, 32 weeks pregnant, bleeding from the mouth and able to feel neither her legs nor her baby moving, Rebecca Guest felt pretty desperate, but hearing two Otago Rescue Helicopters arrive on the scene of the two-car collision at Lindis Crossing changed all that.
The Otago Regional Council's preliminary financial report for 2011 is "looking pretty positive", chairman Stephen Woodhead says.
How wood burners are used is a major contributor to winter air pollution in urban areas, new research is finding.
Forsyth Barr Stadium will shift to Dunedin Venues Management control this week as the project managers who oversaw its construction hand over control.
The chance of singing in front of a Rugby World Cup crowd at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium drew about 90 singers to choir auditions at the weekend.
All those who supported or pitched in for the Regent Theatre's $7.5 million redevelopment enjoyed a "thank you concert" on Saturday night.
Finding out what the job of a wildlife ranger entails attracted about 40 people to celebrate World Ranger Day with the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust yesterday.
The rabbit-killing virus RHD has this year in Otago taken its biggest toll on the animal in at least five years.
Tourism concessions generated $51 million a year in Fiordland National Park, with a further $13 million in a flow-on effect to the Southland region, a Department of Conservation study has found.
The worst of the snow appears to be over for southern areas, but authorities are worried an overnight frost could bring fresh challenges.
After more than 10 years of work, the Mt Aspiring National Park Plan has been fully approved and is now operative.
Dunedin has again shown its southern city position should not be equated with miserable winter weather - the city had its warmest June yet and was the sunniest and driest of the country's six main centres.
Appointed members will be invited on to the Otago Natural History Trust after a slim majority of members voted for the change to the trust's deed.
Nearly 66% of convicted offenders in Otago have paid the new offender levy aimed at funding entitlements and services for victims of violent crime.
The Otago Regional Council plans to risk letting one of its Waipori flood pumps go without repair for two years.
Calls have gone out for people living along Otago's coast to keep watch for a southern right whale tangled in a craypot line.
