Rebecca Fox

The Otago Regional Council is about to cease publication of a booklet that provides climate and pasture information.

From "draconian" to "giant experiment", both sides of the water quality debate expressed their view of the proposed policies yesterday.

Shona Dunlop MacTavish, considered the mother of modern dance in New Zealand, is in a serious but stable condition in Dunedin Hospital after her car and another were in a collision on Saturday.

Police were last night still looking for a person who they say held a store attendant at knifepoint at the Mornington Night'n Day food store, in Dunedin.

The Otago Regional Council yesterday decided to spend nearly $1 million building a temporary council chamber in its Stafford St car park, one councillor describing the project as a "no-brainer".

Investment in Otago's irrigation future could come at a price for Otago ratepayers, with annual rate increases of up to 4% a possibility over the next five years.

Heavy rain continues to fall in Dunedin and North Otago, causing surface flooding and forcing more road closures.

Canterbury and Otago could have a few days' reprieve from the rain which has drenched the regions since the weekend.

Children at Mosgiel Central Kindergarten love nothing more than pottering in their garden and this year they were rewarded with the Toroa Award for best conservation work in a school or kindergarten in coastal Otago.

Otago Peninsula, with all its flora and fauna, is very special to Moira Parker. Rebecca Fox asks this year's winner of the Coastal Otago Conservation Award about her passion for conservation work.

An unusual invertebrate captured the imagination of a roading engineer during a Dunedin highway project. Rebecca Fox talks to Simon Underwood, who has received a special recognition award about juggling a highway development with protecting an important species.

Murray Dempster is no longer surprised to be asked to pose with his military collection.

Watching water creep towards his home was not the best way to start Saturday morning, Mosgiel man Robert Crowe said.

NZ Wood rolled out its new national campaign on the sides of a long haul truck and trailer unit in Dunedin yesterday to encourage people to use wood.