February is only half over but Dunedin has already experienced 150% of its normal monthly rainfall, thanks to an active La Nina creating tropical weather for the city.
While it is only six weeks since the last appointments to the Otago Conservation board were confirmed, the search is already on for this year's appointments.
An injured female kaka from the Eglinton Valley, in Milford Sound, has arrived at Orokonui Ecosanctuary and it is hoped she will provide much-needed "wild" genes for the newly established population.
Environment Minister Nick Smith is not ruling out a Government contribution to the Leith Lindsay Flood Protection Scheme but says the Otago Regional Council has a "high hurdle" to leap.
One sentence of the Otago local authorities' triennial agreement has drawn derision from an Otago regional councillor and sparked a debate over language used in local government.
Communities developing irrigation infrastructure may soon be able to get up to $2 million financial assistance from the Otago Regional Council.
Otago landowners with water takes in areas difficult to access or where weather is too harsh for electronic equipment will be able to apply for exemptions to new water metering rules.
Workers felled trees on the bank of the river before Christmas in preparation for widening the true left bank in coming weeks. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery.
Otago regional councillors have failed to "grab the opportunity" and make a decision on the future of the Leith Lindsay flood protection scheme.
For the second year in a row, the albatross colony at Taiaroa Head has two female birds raising a chick.
Farmers who called for a review of flood and drainage rating on the Taieri plain may have got more than they asked for, with one describing the proposed changes as "significant".
"D-Day" has arrived for the proposed flood protection scheme on the Water of Leith and Lindsay Creek.
A full emergency landing was declared at Dunedin International Airport yesterday after a bird was "ingested" into a plane's engine shortly after take-off.
A proposal to increase charges for some resource consents has been voted down by a slim majority of Otago regional councillors.
A new way for people to have their say about what they think is good, bad or indifferent about the way the Department of Conservation (Doc) manages public land and native flora and fauna has just been launched in Otago and Southland.
Police are searching for a man who held up a Dunedin dairy at knife-point last night, the second armed robbery in the city in three days.
Rook numbers have dropped from 5000 to about 130 in Otago but those remaining are becoming increasingly difficult to target.
A group of students visiting Otago from the University of Peking in Beijing, China, is full of praise for the region and the activities it provides but has one complaint - the bus service.
A pedestrian and cycle bridge described as the "missing link" between Dunedin's Queens Gardens and the harbourside has been proposed by the Dunedin City Council.
While the Otago Regional Council has yet to give a discount for late resource consent processing, the issue still has applicants dissatisfied.
It will not come as any surprise to Dunedin residents that the city was the coolest of New Zealand's six main centres in January.
