Hamish MacLean

Exploring the shallow water off Wellers Rock, a Dunedin dive student put her hand on what she thought was a stick protruding from the sand in Otago Harbour.

The number of staff at Otago and Southland’s regional councils monitoring how natural resources are managed lags behind the national average.

The Otago Regional Council expects to recoup millions of dollars through property sales once it moves into new headquarters in Dunedin.

Supermarket giant Foodstuffs is worried construction of the new Dunedin Hospital could cause serious headaches for its supermarket across the road.

Environment Minister David Parker will take part in a Dunedin High Court case that could set the course for how local government puts rules in place to protect the environment.

The Otago Regional Council and local iwi are not just in a relationship, they are partners, the council says.

A disappointed Otago farming sector says it has been left in the lurch by the Environment Court’s interim decision on the Otago Regional Council’s water permits plan change.

Otago has already lost the war on rabbits, Otago regional councillor Michael Laws says.

The Otago Regional Council’s new headquarters in Dunedin may be be ready for use by the end of next year.

The St Patrick’s hall was filled with bargain hunters and people supporting an ice-cold good cause on Saturday.

Former pupils of Holy Name School gather at the memorial walnut tree at the University of Otago campus on Saturday.

One of New Zealand’s most celebrated gardeners gardened in just his boots and a sunhat.

Conservationists are welcoming a government plan to introduce potentially hundreds of cameras on inshore fishing boats.

Otago regional councillors will soon consider whether they want to go ahead with a planned 18% rates rise next year.

A planned green hydrogen research centre in Dunedin now has the financial backing of both the New Zealand and German governments.

Outrage over rate rises and anger from some in the farming community is fuelling increasing aggression towards Otago Regional Council staff, the council chief says.