Worries about whether the Otago Regional Council has enough staff to fully implement its water plan, and growing pressures on water-short rivers surfaced during recent discussion on the Clutha River.
The Otago Regional Council will soon be seeking public feedback on the council's draft annual plan, and proposed new activities and programmes for 2016-17.
At the age of 68, Mike Smith is discovering life still holds plenty of surprises.
If you want to learn more about the power of the mind, your chance will come when Brain Week Otago activities start in Dunedin today.
Otago regional councillors yesterday recommended that the council move out of its headquarters within three years and into new premises, or perhaps a remodelled heritage building.
A few election year nerves jangled at an Otago Regional Council meeting yesterday, when councillors recommended approving an 18.4% general rate increase, and a switch to a new headquarters within three years.
Maniototo farmer Geoff Crutchley is "alarmed'' that the recent resignation of experienced Otago Regional Council staff could undermine implementation of the region's crucial 6A water plan.
A workman pulls in a hose from behind a cofferdam in the Water of Leith, near Montgomery Ave, in North Dunedin yesterday.
A Big Little Day Out at the Forsyth Barr Stadium turned into a big success, organisers said.
Unruly winds and low water levels in the Water of Leith caused a few complications during Dunedin's fifth ‘‘great annual duck race'' yesterday, but about $30,000 was successfully raised for charity.
An international crowd-funding project is soaring towards success and will further protect the kakapo, a critically endangered flightless parrot.
The Otago Regional Council is establishing a more grass-roots Otago water quality stakeholder group, reassuring critics who feared a less productive national approach could be taken.
More than 10,000 people have flocked to the Otago Museum's Planetarium since it opened late last year, and visitor numbers also rose sharply at the museum's Tropical Forest last month.
More than 400 people have signed a petition urging the restoration of an hourly ‘‘local to Dunedin'' bus, directly linking Brighton, Green Island, Concord and South Dunedin.
University of Otago academic Prof Pauline Norris is concerned New Zealand's overall drug costs will rise under the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.
Two independent commissioners yesterday reserved their decision over an effluent-related nitrogen consent application involving three farms near the Kakanui River.
Otago regional councillors yesterday backed council chairman Stephen Woodhead by voting down two code of conduct complaints against him.
Climate change insights gained by University of Otago researchers investigating a remote part of the Antarctic could help with better protecting South Dunedin and other low lying coastal areas.
Awareness-raising moves are useful but some Otago land users need to ''step up to the plate'' and do more to avoid effluent ponding rule breaches on dairy farms.
Nearly 100 unmarked student examination scripts have been stolen in a burglary at the University of Otago's Clocktower building, in what the institution says is a "reprehensible act''.
