The Minister for the Environment is seeking advice on what to do about the Otago Regional Council and intends to talk to the council’s chairman about it directly.
New housing or infrastructure to meet Dunedin’s growth could be stymied through an overly prohibitive regional policy statement proposed by the regional council, the Dunedin City Council says.
As the threat from the Delta outbreak subsides in the South, more than 14,000km away in the US, Marcie Amoroson describes a war zone in the fight against Covid-19.
The Otago Regional Council’s former chairwoman has signed a petition aiming to disband the elected councillors and appoint commissioners to govern the council.
The team that delivered more than 10,000 drive-in Covid vaccinations at the Edgar Centre this month has shifted to Forsyth Barr Stadium to shore up the immunity of Dunedin’s student population.
The Otago Regional Council has called for an exploration of uses for the Forbury Park raceway site to mitigate the flood risk for greater South Dunedin.
Saliva testing should have been used when people boarded flights to travel home before lockdown, University of Otago geneticist Prof Neil Gemmell says.
The new dean of the University of Otago’s School of Biomedical Sciences might forever be known as the scientist who went to Scotland to look for the Loch Ness monster.
There are at least 120 contacts of Covid cases isolating in the South Island as the reach of the Delta outbreak grows, including a number throughout Otago.