The Otago Regional Council has begun the process of setting minimum flows to protect the aquatic ecosystems, and their natural character, of the Nevis River, in Central Otago.
Otago's rock lobster quota will be increased for next season, but by how much is still to be debated, an Otago management committee spokesman says.
Otago will miss out on early warnings of thunderstorms and heavy downpours when MetService's new service goes live next July.
A tough new pest management strategy will soon become operative, forcing landowners to ensure rabbit numbers conform to a new lower standard by 2012.
Opus International Consultants Ltd has missed its third deadline in two months to provide the information described as "critical" to the progress of the Otago Regional Council's Leith Lindsay Flood Protection Scheme.
A "Rolls-Royce building on a prime waterfront site" at a considerable cost to ratepayers is not the answer to the Otago Regional Council's space problems, Cr Doug Brown says.
Otago regional councillors are still divided over whether to go ahead with their council's proposed waterfront office block, yesterday voting to wait on the outcome of a tender process before finally committing to the project.
Thirty eggs have been laid by the endangered royal northern albatrosses at Taiaroa Head so far this breeding season.
Winning $250,000 each just months away from being made redundant has given four workers at Fisher and Paykel's Mosgiel plant freedom from worry.
After about 30 years as a Santa's helper, Dick Knopp knows the answer to just about every curly question that comes from an inquiring child.
Investigating how McCann's skinks give birth has been made possible for a University of Otago student through an environmental scholarship.
A previously unknown penguin species roamed South Island shores until a few hundred years ago, DNA from prehistoric bones has shown.
Ministry of Fisheries officers are frustrated fishermen are continuing to flout paua catch and size restrictions.
The six young native parrots released at Orokonui Ecosanctuary nearly a fortnight ago are getting stronger every day, general manager Chris Baillie says.
The area covered by the Otago vector control programme to tackle bovine tuberculosis will increase this year to cover an extra 12,000ha.
Increasing tensions between water users is going to become more common as land use changes, the Otago Regional Council is warning.
Winds of up to 120kmh are expected to hit eastern areas including Otago today as yet another spring front moves across New Zealand.
Having poison bait and dead animals close to a public walkway in the Ross Creek area is "disgraceful", Dunedin man Peter Cruise says.
Kitten cut in two, starved guinea pigs and heat-distressed dogs are among the animal cruelty cases in Otago to make the Royal New Zealand SPCA's sixth annual list of shame.
Otago Forward is on "probation" with the Otago Regional Council, as some of its economic development initiatives begin to move forward.
