Restricting parking and operating hours for a proposed new business in the warehouse precinct seems to be at odds with the Dunedin City Council's plans to attract more people to the area, planner Louise Taylor says.
A sudden influx of 80 mostly starving yellow-eyed penguins is stretching the resources of Otago Peninsula's penguin ''hospital''.
Continued liaison between the Strath Taieri Community Board and the Otago Regional Council is planned as they seek to find solutions to erosion of the Taieri River's banks.
Continued liaison between the Strath Taieri Community Board and the Otago Regional Council is planned as they seek to find solutions to erosion of the Taieri River's banks.
An economic boost to the Taieri of about $500,000 is expected when nearly 800 motorhomes and caravans pour into Mosgiel at Easter.
The cause of pollution in the Taieri River at Waipiata remains a mystery, forcing the Otago Regional Council to review its investigations.
Enrolments for Otago Polytechnic are ''well ahead'' of last year, with the institution looking set to grow for the third year running.
The large letters identifying Otago Polytechnic buildings may soon be a thing of the past as the institution moves towards more imaginative naming of its blocks.
Otago Polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker has grounded himself for the year.
A call for pay to be more even between Otago Regional councillors with the responsibility for a committee and those who do not has been turned down by the Remuneration Authority.
It is hoped a ''long, complicated and tortuous'' series of cases seeking to establish a camping ground at Kakanui may have reached its final hurdle in an Environment Court hearing in Dunedin yesterday.
As another endangered sea lion is killed by the squid fishery, Otago scientists have reiterated their calls for the science behind the fishery's management to be reviewed.
Otago regional councillor Trevor Kempton uses his new iPad during a council meeting yesterday.
In a race against darkness, the crew of the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter flew a challenging mission to save a man who lost part of an arm in an accident aboard a foreign fishing vessel.
Criticism of the handling of high E. coli levels in the upper Taieri River failed to take into consideration proposed tough water quality standards being introduced in Otago, the Otago Regional Council says.
Community efforts to restore habitats and protect species through fenced enclosures may be taking the pressure off the Government support conservation, Otago business academic Prof Colin Campbell-Hunt says.
As thousands of yellow rubber ducks tumbled into the Water of Leith yesterday there was just one problem - a light northeasterly wind.
The Otago Regional Council's ability to take a position on oil and gas exploration off Otago's coast may be restricted by having to consider future resource consents related to the activity.
They are the pied pipers of Lions Lark in the Park.
New Zealand's fishing licence system may be overhauled to give anglers more choice and cheaper licence options.
