Otago Regional Council's decision to contribute to funding Otago Stadium is not being consulted on in its upcoming long-term planning consultation, but that did not stop the issue becoming a debating point yesterday.
Despite facing some major projects in coming years, the Otago Regional Council has managed to keep its proposed general rate increase for 2009-10 to 1%.
There will be plenty of noise at the Taieri Airport Wings and Wheels Event tomorrow as aircraft and vehicles of all types and uses go on display, in the air and on the ground.
The Otago Stadium project got a $52.5 million shot in the arm yesterday after an 11th-hour decision by the Government.
Nearly 2000 surveys have gone out to residents on Otago Peninsula seeking their views on a possum eradication programme for the area.
February brought cool and wet conditions on Otago's east coast and, in some cases, near-record rainfall.
Four skippers, including at least two from Dunedin, are being investigated for refusing to take an observer on board during the Ministry of Fisheries Hector's dolphin programme.
The Otago Regional Council's proposed office block at Steamer Basin is in "limbo" after a challenge by Cr Doug Brown for more public consultation before a tender for the project is accepted.
A plastic turkey drumstick, partial denture, horse blanket and even a live common skink turned up at the Coastal Cleanup headquarters yesterday as volunteers sorted through 1425kg of rubbish.
Dunedin City Baptist church is proposing to build a large facility on 7.4ha of rural land beside Dunedin's southern motorway at Concord.
The weather may have been marginal yesterday morning, but that did not stop Bluff's fleet of 11 oyster boats heading out on the first day of the season.
Otago fishermen are upset at an implication they could be to blame for a Hector's dolphin found mutilated on Moeraki beach last month.
Oyster lovers will be praying for reasonable weather tomorrow, allowing the oyster season to open as planned, especially in light of early indications this year's oysters will be bigger and better.
Thousands of New Zealand's rarest and most threatened fish may be relocated to the Waianakarua River in North Otago to provide a back-up population to their home in the Kauru River, which is under threat from didymo.
About 800 paua off Katiki Pt, south of Moeraki, have been tagged as Otago fishermen seek to determine how well paua are growing in the area.
By upgrading the Leaning Lodge hut in the Rock and Pillar Conservation Park, a trust hopes to preserve the facility for the next generation.
If the past week of sou'westers has you wondering where summer has gone, do not worry - more warm weather is still to come.
Dunedin's bus timetable and route information is now accessible to the blind, making it easier for the visually impaired to get around town, Otago Association of Blind Citizens chairman Dave Allen says.
Major flooding and damage were averted during the past four to five days of persistent rain along Otago's coast due to a lack of heavy downpours, local authorities say.
The weather may be miserable but that has yet to deter some hardy fishermen who were yesterday setting up camp on Otago Harbour wharves, ready for a good weekend of fishing.
