Rebecca Fox

Throwing a piece of paper or cardboard into a green bin could start the habit of a lifetime.

Visitors to Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula are still encroaching on the shy yellow-eyed penguin's habitat, leaving researchers to call for better signs at the popular beach.

Six rescue trips in one day covering the equivalent distance of a flight to Australia, is the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust's busiest day in its 11-year history.

Dunedin Archives New Zealand and National Library staff should notice little change in their day-to-day work once merged with the Internal Affairs Department, the man who will oversee the integration says.

"Substantially" more water could be available for irrigation in the Tarras-Bendigo area than first thought, an Otago Regional Council study shows.

Kate Linterman does not want to be "that girl with Crohn's" and knows better than anyone how embarrassing talking about toilet issues is.

The restoration of windows and doors in the historic accommodation block on Quarantine Island has been made possible by a donation of $56,000 from the Otago Community Trust.

Farmers, landowners, local authorities and industries are being warned to get their applications for resource consent renewals in well before they expire, or risk major consequences under the new Resource Management Act changes.

Rabbits in parts of Otago are at their highest levels in more than a decade.

A "full and frank" discussion was held between Taieri ratepayers affected by May's floods and the Otago Regional Council at a private meeting yesterday, chairman Stephen Cairns says.