Rebecca Fox

Jim Curline is a master of the art of tying fishing flies.

Inspiration from a Taieri Times article about the Big Rock Protect Our Penguins Group's efforts to save blue penguins from dog attacks led a group of Outram School pupils to brainstorm ways they could help the group safeguard the birds as part of their technology curriculum studies and school challenge to contribute to the community.

Whatever New Zealand does, it should not ignore science as it amends and develops its resource management legislation, US environmental law specialist Prof J. B. Ruhl says.

Waking up in your student hostel room, your hands clenched and your body so sore you can't get out of bed sounds like a nightmare.

The war memorial and gates on the site of the former High Street School in Mornington have received category 2 historic listing.

An application from Otakou runanga for a mataitai covering most of Otago Harbour has generated submissions from 20 people and organisations.

After about 30 years at its Bath St site in central Dunedin, Anglican Family Care plans to move its operations to the former McKenzie and Willis building next year.

Former Silver Ferns manager and Gore High School deputy principal Jackie Barron is returning south to become principal of St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin.

A group of Taieri young people are looking for a ''buddy''.

If New Zealand sea lion numbers are to increase, effort needs to be put into helping adults survive, biologist Stefan Meyer says.

More than half the Otago and Southland groups that applied for funding from the Department of Conservation's new partnerships fund failed in their bid.

Giving young Australians a ''noble, patriotic story'' of their country's overseas wars is providing a good cover for its ''shameful'' history of killing its indigenous population, leading Australian historian Prof Henry Reynolds says.

Four Otago conservation projects have been granted $475,000 to help further their work, Associate Conservation Minister Nicky Wagner announced today.

If new ''high productivity'' trucks are to be able to use the roads between Dunedin and Queenstown, some bridges along the route will need to strengthened.

Nearly 1000 Otago and Southland health workers will join others nationwide to take strike action after being offered a 0.7% pay increase.

A 67-year August temperature record for Dunedin melted yesterday as strong northwesterly winds buffeted the region, bringing down powerlines and trees, lifting roofing iron and fuelling a grass fire.

Fifty-six jobs will be created when fast-food outlet Wendy's opens in South Dunedin next year.

As long as today's solid-fuel burners are the main form of home heating in Otago, it's unrealistic to expect the region to meet national air quality standards, Otago Regional Council scientist Deborah Mills says.

Windmills similar to those used to fight frosts in vineyards and orchards have been suggested as worthy of investigation as a solution Central Otago's air quality woes.