Plans are being developed to advance flood protection work on the Water of Leith between Cumberland St North and Dundas St, in Dunedin, with the hope of doing the work in the summer.
Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Cairns has attempted to head off critics of the council's proposed nil general rate increase by saying it had not "dropped off anything" to get such a good result.
A new tougher enforcement stance should give consent holders who fail to meet basic requirements a "little prod" to do better, Otago Regional Council deputy chairman Stephen Woodhead says.
Hearing the apology given by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for his country's post-war child migrant scheme had John McGrory, of Dunedin, wiping his eyes.
A Dunedin man is hoping 33 children will not suffer as a result of the Moroccan authorities' decision to expel his son, daughter-in-law and about 16 other foreign nationals who worked for the Village of Hope in the North African country.
No general rate increase is planned by the Otago Regional Council in the coming financial year.
Balclutha and Kaitaia experienced their sunniest summers on record this season.
Restoring a historic building on an island in the middle of Otago Harbour is no mean feat, says former Quarantine Island caretaker Kathy Morrison.
A symposium to discuss issues around marine protection in Otago is just one of the events being held to mark Seaweek in Dunedin.
Darren Burden, Dunedin Venues Management Ltd's development director, who became a New Zealand citizen at a ceremony in the Skeggs Gallery, Dunedin Municipal Chambers, this week.
Fish and Game Otago is calling for answers as to why some wetlands are being drained and their vegetation destroyed in South Otago.
Professional fishing guides are more than happy to hear the Otago Fish and Game Council is strongly supporting the proposal to advance the introduction of a licence for commercial game-bird hunters and anglers.
Dunedin and Balclutha have broken decades-long records with their sunniest February.
Fish and Game Otago says it intends to develop a large wetland at Henley.
A diesel spill from a recreational fishing vessel which sank at its berth at the Riverton wharf on Sunday night has dispersed.
Initial results from a pre-season survey of bonamia in Bluff oyster beds suggest the disease is still causing problems in some areas, but despite this the fishery is continuing to rebuild, a scientist says.
A combination of high public pressure and "dangerously low" yellow-eyed penguin weights is a pattern being seen on more Otago coastal sites, the Department of Conservation says.
Sculpture comprising six large wisdom teeth constructed from concrete and Oamaru stone and paid for by the Dunedin City Council will soon grace Dunedin's harbourside.
A man jumped into the water off Cape Saunders yesterday to save his partner who had been washed off the rocks by a wave.
A former field officer for Otago Fish and Game has been elected its council's new chairman.
