Hamish MacLean

Talk of replacing councillors with commissioners at the Otago Regional Council is premature, Environment Minister David Parker says.

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.

Otago regional councillors are at odds over a plan to build a more harmonious relationship with council management.

Otago Regional Council chief executive Sarah Gardner has questioned why some are calling for a pause in the Government’s massive water reform.

Saliva testing should have been used when people boarded flights to travel home before lockdown, University of Otago geneticist Prof Neil Gemmell says.

Otago and Southland councils have asked the Government to slow its massive water reform programme.

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.

Fears have been raised that an old landfill is contaminating a Waikouaiti lagoon.

Mandatory mask wearing is here to stay, a top epidemiologist says, as New Zealanders mask up in the country’s first outbreak of the Delta variant.

A fashion exhibition, pyjama party and after-dark events for the student-aged crowd have helped keep Otago Museum’s visitor numbers up.

A te reo Maori name change could be on the cards for Otago Museum.

Lucy Liebergreen is betting this will not be a three-day lockdown.

Funerals in Dunedin have been postponed.

Dunedin backyards are home to possums.