Hamish MacLean

One of Dunedin’s biggest developers says the rising cost of doing business in the city is forcing his company to look outside Dunedin to invest.

The population in inland Otago is growing so fast another representation review could take place in just a couple of years, Otago regional councillors have been advised.

The Shotover wastewater treatment plant is only one of a slew of plants failing to make the grade in the region, a new report shows.

New Zealand’s sharemarket closed down 3.68% yesterday, but the country had a "quiet day" and fared better than its neighbours, a Dunedin financial consultant says.

The agricultural potential of North Otago - underpinned by the water available from the Waitaki River - is only in its infancy, an Otago regional councillor says.

A formal community liaison group need not be formed to manage the ongoing use and eventual closure of the Green Island landfill, the Dunedin City Council says.

Three off-leash dogs savaged a sea lion in a "pack" attack on a Dunedin beach, a witness says.

Queenstown's troubled wastewater treatment plant has put the Otago Regional Council between "a rock and a hard place", a regional councillor says.

Heritage New Zealand has endorsed the first stage of restoration plans for Dunedin’s "important and irreplaceable" Municipal Chambers.

OceanaGold has applied for its Macraes mine extension without a cultural impact assessment, a matter "reluctantly" acknowledged by iwi representatives.

Sea lion pups are being brought to Otago Peninsula nurseries later this year than in the past and several mothers have eluded Department of Conservation staff trying to keep track of the species’...

Forbury Park’s biggest neighbour say they have no definite idea about what should be done with the large, largely vacant land next door.

Oceana Gold has understated the environmental risk posed by its proposed expansion of Macraes mine, a senior consents planner at the Otago Regional Council says.

Jim Fyfe has been at the forefront of conservation along Otago’s coast for more than a quarter of a century — today is his last day on the job.