With majority support for a pest eradication programme on Otago Peninsula to protect its biodiversity values, it was now time to go the next step - finding out how many and where the possums were.
Questioning Opoho School pupils about the vegetables in their school garden, Green MP Sue Kedgley was happy to see they knew their silverbeet.
A $54 million cut in its budget for the next four years has left the Department of Conservation looking to reduce spending in lower-priority areas and avoid redundancies.
Andersons Bay inlet's diverse population of birds will soon have a new place to roost, safe from humans and pets.
The chances of the solar-powered transmitters on two young Taiaroa Head albatrosses starting to transmit again are getting slimmer by the day, researcher Bindi Thomas says.
They are bright, active and happy toddlers with little outward signs of their traumatic start to life.
Discovering a penguin they had released, after spending a year nursing it back to health, had been killed by a dog, has angered staff at Penguin Place on Otago Peninsula.
Balaclava's May rainfall record has been broken, thanks to another nearly 14mm on Thursday night.
A community coastal care group is being formed to discuss remedial work at Te Rauone beach, Harington Point, near Dunedin.
Dunedin's recent steady rain will see at least one suburb of the city break a 34-year-old rainfall record for May - with 10 days of the month remaining.
The dumping of domestic cats in remote places on Otago Peninsula is threatening the area's "very precious" wildlife.
Pictures of pigs in single sow stalls featured in a television current affairs programme have shocked animal lovers around the country, but a Dunedin farmer stands by indoor pig farming.
"Idiotic'' Dunedin drivers who attempted to go through the road closed barriers on Three Mile Hill Rd this morning put themselves and police at risk, Senior Sergeant Mel Aitken said.
There has been a fatal accident at Dacre, in Southland, which has resulted in the closure of SH 1 near Spurhead Creek, from Edendale to Invercargill.
A Frankton landowner has opposed the Otago Regional Council's plans to impose a targeted rate on the area to pay for works to the Shotover delta.
More rain is predicted for a "saturated" Otago and Southland as another vigorous cold front moves on to the South Island, possibly bringing with it severe gales.
A solution may have been found to the problem of rubbish leaking out from Hampden's old dump.
A "wonderful opportunity" and "way over the top" were some of the descriptions people gave the Otago Regional Council's proposed office block at long-term plan hearings yesterday.
Trains, buses and cycling dominated submissions on the final day of public consultation on the Otago Regional Council's 10-year plan yesterday.
The Otago Regional Council proposal to build a $31 million office block on the harbourside drew criticism and encouragement yesterday.
