Rebecca Fox

Otago's mayors are fully behind Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull's call to boycott businesses that sell synthetic cannabis.

Southern Clams is looking at ''plan B'' after hearing the concerns of Dunedin's yachting fraternity about its proposed Bluff oyster finishing project in Otago Harbour.

A resource consent application to finish Bluff oysters in Otago Harbour has been rejected by the Otago Regional Council.

It appears a little freedom might have been all it took for the kaka known as Mr Roto and his partner ''Mrs Roto'' to reignite the fires and breed.

With its future hanging in the balance, the Otago Conservation Board has cancelled its next meeting.

Individuals need to take action and use their citizenship rights to put pressure on the Government to act on climate change, Victoria University School of Government professor Jonathan Boston says.

Packing up polystyrene models of penguins is just one of the challenges the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is facing before its move to Conservation House.

Dropping caged oysters into the middle of the lower Otago Harbour is akin to planting tulips in the centre of Logan Park, Yachting New Zealand says.

By taking matters into his own hands and being so public about it, Berwick farmer Daniel Walmar Lyders was ''extremely foolhardy'', Judge Brian Dwyer said in the Dunedin District Court yesterday.

A trial of new traps to protect the declining numbers of robins in the Silverstream forest has successfully killed predators but the birds' breeding has not yet improved.

Celia Lashlie's journey from prisons to providing insight into raising boys has led her to discover it is the ''matriarch'' of families who could be the core of the solution.

An application by Dunedin cafe-bar Lone Star to remain open until 3am on Anzac Day is being opposed by the Dunedin City Council licensing inspector and police.

Fifty years ago, people did not give the University of Otago's School of Pharmacy much of a future, but it has gone from strength to strength, the school's original head, Prof Fred Fastier, said yesterday.

New Zealand's critically endangered Hector's dolphin population could be saved and recover if protection measures are extended further out to sea, a new University of Otago review has found.

The Petrie family (from left) Kieran (5), Caitlyn (8), Alison and Tony cosy up under polyester insulation of the type installed in their Corstorphine, Dunedin, house.