A "dedicated champion" of war veterans' rights and former national president of the Returned and Services Association, John Campbell, of Dunedin, has died after a long illness.
The possibility a proposed regional wilding trees trust could be a "spider web in disguise" has the Otago Regional Council taking a cautious approach to its formation.
The Otago Regional Council will put $116,500 towards pre-feasibility studies into irrigation development and water management in the Manuherikia and Ida Valleys.
Select committee members will be invited to tour Otago to highlight the dangers of weakening dam safety regulations.
Proposed rural water regulation changes are too "aggressive", "unachievable", "inflexible" and could end farming, forestry and horticulture as the region knows it, some of its opposers say.
A woman who had part of her jaw cut away after being wrongly diagnosed with cancer of the mouth has received an apology from the University of Otago Dental Hospital.
Otago Regional Council rates will increase by 3.85% this year, and if not paid by November 1, ratepayers will face a 10% penalty.
Otago residents now get to have their say on whether another councillor should be added to the regional council to represent its Dunstan constituency.
Funding has been cut by the Ministry of Youth Development for a youth development course, formerly known as the Conservation Corps.
A search is on for robins that have settled outside Orokonui Ecosanctuary's predator-proof fence as researchers continue their efforts to determine how quickly rat-wise birds lose their fear of the mammalian predator.
New Zealand's endangered kakapo could be at risk from a potentially fatal virus newly discovered in the South Island.
Otago Regional Council scientists need to reassess its science around minimum flows for the Low Burn if threatened longfin eels are to survive in the catchment, an environmental scientist says.
The Hawea Flat community has significant concerns about the effect of intensive farming on its water supply, but is not prepared to accept the "biggest risk" is its own septic tanks, Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Woodhead says.
What might be its last mail-based annual residents' satisfaction survey has been launched by the Dunedin City Council.
Water quality in the Taieri River's upper reaches is good, but some of its tributaries are not faring so well, probably due to irrigation run-off and stock access to waterways, an Otago Regional Council report says.
Despite figures showing Cromwell's terrace aquifer is technically one of Otago's over-allocated bodies of water, an investigation has shown there is actually "loads of water", Otago Regional Council groundwater scientist Jenns Rekker says.
Large waves are expected to pound Dunedin's coastline this week increasing the risk of erosion as a biting southwesterly brings high winds and snow to Otago.
A proposed new commercial and retail building planned for Great King St could have a "future link bridge" extending from its first floor to the Dunedin City Council's neighbouring car-park building.
Snow flurries to near sea level are predicted for coastal Otago and eastern Southland tonight and tomorrow morning.
A crisp, dry autumn broke decades-long records for sunshine hours in Dunedin and Balclutha.
