What makes Otago Peninsula sea lions so large and healthy compared with their Auckland Island counterparts is just one question scientists are hoping to answer by the continuation of a satellite tracking programme.
What killed many threatened yellow-eyed penguin chicks on Otago Peninsula during the past breeding season is still a mystery.
Another month is likely to be needed to complete the Leith Saddle walkway, following delays due to problems with the track realignment late last year.
The Otago Regional Council hopes it will never have to appear in the Environment Court over its appeal to the harbourside plan, but believes the plan could hamper development of its Steamer Basin site if it was not needed for its own proposed new office block.
West Taieri residents face having to fund about $2 million in work during the next four years to ensure the ongoing effectiveness of their drainage scheme.
The Ross family have huddled around their fire to keep warm for the past four years, but hope this winter will be different, after being accepted for the Waitati Energy Project Retrofit Roll-out.
Concern about fishing pressures off the coast of Karitane has led a local fishing group to propose smaller bag limits and tighter restrictions on total quantities of seafood being taken from the area.
Otago industry, students and the community have been "called to action" by the Otago Institute of Design as it fights the prospect of losing the $12.5 million government loan that would make its new facility a reality.
A summer of hard work has paid off for a group of University of Otago law students who will soon represent the Pacific region at an international moot court competition in Taipei.
Seven-year-old Makana Duncan is the youngest member of the Hawaiian Kaua'i branch of Friendship Force International and already on her second trip to New Zealand.
The complexities of the human brain were on show at Brain Day, at the University of Otago on Saturday.
A last-minute bid which raised the price $1000 was all it took for Richelle Williams to become the owner of the Otago Community Hospice charity house on Saturday.
A German television star filming on a yellow-eyed penguin reserve on Otago Peninsula hopes to be able to raise awareness and funds back home for the endangered species.
It might have been late arriving in Dunedin, but that did not dim the enthusiasm of more than 200 passengers who caught a rare commuter train from Waitati yesterday.
Changes to the Otago Regional Council's water plan have brought in a "good" number of submissions from the public.
Response to a proposal to eradicate possums from Otago Peninsula has been mostly positive in a survey as a series of meetings on the topic are held for residents.
Lake Hayes residents are being warned possible solutions to the lake's algal bloom problem could be costly, with no guarantee of success.
It is important the Otago Regional Council makes sure any "tinkering" with the Resource Management Act is in the best interests of the Otago region, councillors say.
A former Dunedin man is looking after one of England's oldest gardens. Rebecca Fox reports.
Many of the Otago Regional Council's new bus services are "booming" but some, including the new city loop service, are "doomed" because of low passenger numbers.
