While the latest survey of clam beds at Waitati Inlet has shown they are sustainable, the Dunedin company harvesting the shellfish faces challenges from pollution and plans to develop Otago Harbour.
Police want help from the public after two separate incidents in Dunedin where one woman was robbed and another intimidated.
NewZealand's "special tone of voice" when writing hymns will be one characteristic Emeritus Prof Colin Gibson will speak about at international hymn society conferences next month.
Seven years after a 1080 poison drop in the northern Blue Mountains in West Otago reportedly killed up to 75% of the area's fallow deer, another poisoning operation is to go ahead, with hunters' reluctant consent.
East Taieri School pupils got into the spirit of World Environment Day with enthusiasm yesterday, swinging shovels over their shoulders and carrying their plants and trowels as they headed off to create a new home for skinks and geckos.
From a 10-part challenge to be sustainable, to pupils helping clean up stream habitat, a variety of activities are being planned throughout Otago to mark World Environment Day.
A basic right of every New Zealander to put a dinghy in the sea to get a "feed of fish" will be denied by new measures to protect threatened dolphins, Dunedin recreational fishing advocates say.
Fishermen around the country need to unite and fight the "over the top" measures to protect the rare Hector's and Maui dolphins announced yesterday, Port Chalmers Fishermen's Co-op Society president Neil McDonald says.
An Environment Court judge has declined the Otago Regional Council's application for costs to be awarded to the council after a legal challenge from a Dunedin marine engineering company last year.
How the Otago Regional Council's consultants used or did not use historic flood data in their design of the Leith Lindsay Flood Protection Scheme in Dunedin has been questioned in the second day of an Environment Court appeal of the resource consents granted for the project.
Dunedin accommodation is being booked fast for the first test rugby match the city has hosted in about three years.
Hearing opposition to the Otago Regional Council's proposal to put $37.5 million towards the Awatea St stadium was a "sobering" experience, Carisbrook Stadium Trust chairman Malcolm Farry said.
Developing a plan for delivering improved biodiversity on the Otago Peninsula needs to be thought through and ‘‘owned'' by the community, Department of Conservation technical support officer Bruce McKinlay says.
Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Cairns "philosophically" believes the Awatea St stadium could be of long-term benefit to the region, but wonders where its supporters are.
A proposed 25% increase in bus fares would discourage people from taking buses, submitters at yesterday's Otago Regional Council annual plan hearings warned.
A clear statement is needed from the Otago Regional Council to show what it is doing about climate change, environmental groups say.
It is a price rise 28 years in the making.
Free buses and more shelters were among suggestions made recently to help the Otago Regional Council increase the numbers of bus users.
The Otago Regional Council is considering handing back the city's bus system to the Dunedin City Council.
Dunedin police last night arrested a 32-year-old man in relation to the robberies of six city banks in recent months.
