Rebecca Fox

Despite there being all the ingredients for high air pollution figures, Otago's skies are staying cleaner than usual so far this winter.

Two Dunedin film students have added another award to their shelf for their film Gone Curling.

Under-reporting deaths of nationally critical sea lions by the arrow squid fishery in the Auckland Islands "paints a grim picture" of New Zealand laws designed to protect the marine mammal, a University of Otago researcher says.

Dr. Libby Weaver does not believe eating a whole block of chocolate or packet of biscuits in one go is about willpower.

It is disappointing the Land and Water Forum's latest report has not added anything to the debate on the pitfalls of national "bottom lines" for the state of New Zealand's waterways, Otago Regional Council policy and resource planning director Fraser McRae says.

It's raining, it's cold, it's dark, you're in pain and you don't want to be there, but it's how you deal with those difficult moments that really counts, Olympian Bruce Kendall says.

NHNZ is working with a Korean company to develop cost-effective software able to turn high-definition television into 3-D programmes.

Fish and Game Otago is likely to appeal new rules governing the region's wetlands following the Otago Regional Council's failure to keep introduced game birds in the plan change.

The future of New Zealand's economic wealth lies in the ocean, but exploiting it comes with a responsibility - while the country has the right to use the resources found there, it is obliged to protect the marine environment, scientists say.

Hundreds of customers had to stop shopping and defer early lunch yesterday when a power cut forced the closure of some central Dunedin businesses, including two malls and the city library.

A group of outdoor adventure participants have been able to rest their weary bones in comfort this weekend as the first guests at a new facility at Berwick Camp.

A Larnach Rd man is furious local bodies have not listened to his safety concerns about placing a bus shelter outside his home.

The "terrible carnage" happening on Portobello Rd could be stopped by the completion of the road-widening, cycleway-walkway project, Otago Peninsula Community Board chairman John Bellamy says.

Cracks and deteriorating surfaces will soon be a health and safety risk at Dunedin's skateboard and scooter facilities.

A Dunedin man has offered the Otago Regional Council a free trial of a system that could give city bus users "real-time information".