Mary Williams

A battle about how Milford Sound is run could end up in the courts as cruise boat operators continue to face off.

The ongoing debate around the likely fate of about half a million native lizards should the Bendigo gold mine go ahead has continued at an expert fast-track hearing in Wellington.

A Queenstown landowner has spoken out against a fast-tracked housing development and the threat it poses to the region’s rural character.

Critics of fast-track construction projects around Queenstown say developers are riding roughshod over the area’s growth plan, distressing locals and threatening to pave paradise.

Southland’s public watchdog for freshwater slipped a damning report about nitrate pollution to the dairy industry while health chiefs were still in the dark.

Australian mining firm Santana is now saying local iwi never made any ‘‘financial demands’’ — despite previously alleging a $180 million payout was sought.

Multiple nitrate spikes in Gore’s water supply since residents were advised it is drinkable were at levels a council manager says are ‘‘not desirable’’.

An inconclusive investigation into high nitrate levels in wells used for Gore’s drinking water supply has been branded shoddy by freshwater campaigners and academics.

Santana Minerals’ bid for fast-track approval to mine gold at Bendigo has hit a snag over information gaps in its application.

Amid a nitrate scare in Gore, Environment Southland has been accused of going to "outrageous" lengths to minimise blaming intensive dairying. Mary Williams reports.

A government scheme that finds homes for homeless people as well as tailored support must be funded in Dunedin, a housing hui will be told today.

Lack of consultation with local iwi would be "very difficult" to remedy now, the fast-track panel considering Santana Minerals’ mine proposal has heard.

Intensification of farming is the ‘‘elephant in the room’’ regarding nitrate pollution, Environment Southland’s chairman told councillors yesterday.

Lack of consultation with local iwi would be "very difficult" to remedy now, the fast-track panel considering Santana Minerals’ mine proposal has heard.

Claims Santana may have breached Treaty law in its application to mine gold at Bendigo raised points of law and could end up in the courts, senior lawyers say.

A dolphin that was drowned by a fishing trawler off Southland’s coast was in a marine mammal sanctuary, government records show.

A roof was found for a Dunedin homeless man the day after he told his story to the Otago Daily Times.