Rebecca Fox

A drop in the dollar, and the effects of restructuring, are finally being felt at Dunedin-based film-maker NHNZ, with demands for its work increasing.

Word of cold fronts and snow to low levels sent a chill into the hearts of keen anglers throughout the South on the eve of the 2008 fishing season.

Dunedin's Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust, responsible for "taking the human boot off the throat" of the penguin, has become the first New Zealand conservation organisation to win a prestigious BirdLife International Conservation Achievement Award.

Water users have a duty to the public to use the resource efficiently, so as not to disadvantage others in the community, United States water and environmental law specialist, Prof Joseph Sax, says.

Arguments that deny global warming is occurring are numerous but all can be "robustly rebutted", National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research climate centre leader Dr David Wratt says.

Community support for a fashion fundraiser means a one-day-a-week service for women with postnatal depression will become a reality.

July's Tri Nations rugby test in Dunedin directly brought $7.3 million to the local economy, but the figure could not encapsulate the "feel good" benefits it brought to the city, business and tourism leaders say.

If you think your love life is complicated, spare a thought for the first royal northern albatross to arrive at Taiaroa Head for the new breeding season.

Gatherings of female New Zealand sea lions along Otago's coast are not to be encouraged, it seems - unless they come of their own volition.

Ferrum Engineering has dropped its appeal to the Environment Court against the change of designation for the Otago Regional Council's new office block on the Otago Harbour Steamer Basin.

When James Reardon thinks of his return to the United Kingdom in terms of giving up the "magic" of the snow-capped Kakanuis and tussock landscape of Macraes Flat for the "grey drizzle" of Regent Park, London, he wonders at the sanity of relocating.

Dummy female sea lions may be placed lying alluringly on Otago beaches to attract more of the mammals to breed on the mainland.

Just weeks before harvest, paeony growers in the South are hoping they will be able to introduce measures to get around a United States ban on all New Zealand flowers and foliage imports.