Otago Daily Times: Magazine

The runway at Dunedin's Momona International Airport might be deemed too short for the aircraft of visiting pop bands like Coldplay but it could have been worse. For 30 years, Dunedin debated whether or not it should build an airport in the city, on land reclaimed from Otago Harbour. In this edited extract from his newly released book Flight Path Dunedin, A History of Aviation in Otago, author Jim Sullivan examines "the harbour airport that never was".

We're killing off the world and it has to stop, the World Wildlife Fund says. Geoff Cumming, of The New Zealand Herald, reports.

From bright lights, big cities and big stars to the New Zealand bush, Peter Hitchman has learnt a lot along the way, including survival skills. Shane Gilchrist reports.

Seven weeks ago the Otago Regional Council introduced a "suite" of new farm effluent rules designed to consign to history the unfortunate term "dirty dairying".