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.
Informing, inspiring and supporting like-minded businesswomen in Otago and Southland is the aim of She's Motivated.
The future of Tomahawk Toddlers Playgroup continues to hang in the balance after it was told by a security guard to leave the Tomahawk School grounds following a protest earlier this week.
Dunedin providers of home help for the elderly will "endeavour to challenge" the Otago and Southland district health boards' process in cutting housework help, Presbyterian Support Otago chief executive Gillian Bremner says.
Watching an endangered yellow-eyed penguin dive into the sea and make its way back to its nest, gave no indication that three weeks ago its prognosis was not so good, after a leg injury.
The Mosgiel owners of two dogs yesterday spoke about their last walks along the Silver Stream with their pets, outings that proved fatal for the canines.
Police are "extremely satisfied" they have managed to close down a Queenstown drug syndicate with international connections.
Dorothy and Lesley Mackle take a quiet moment from their 65th wedding anniversary celebrations in their Caversham home yesterday.
Otago Regional Council chief executive Graeme Martin hopes development and production of a new tool to measure runoff from land could be complete within two years.
Tests on the algae believed to have killed two dogs which were playing in the Silver Stream at Mosgiel have confirmed it is toxic.
American Peter Seed thinks New Zealanders are missing the boat by not getting out and enjoying the countryside by bicycle, so has produced a series of maps to encourage people to do so.