The father of Queenstown assault victim Sam Ross says he is starting to become increasingly worried about violent crime in the resort.
Nearly a year after the Otago Regional Council "parked" its multimillion-dollar waterfront building proposal, it is about to start the process all over again.
Water issues and a love of the work are the main reasons the majority of Otago Regional councillors plan to stand again in the October local body elections.
Farmers are calling for all Otago ratepayers to help fund future flood and drainage works on the Taieri.
Groups seeking funding from the Otago Regional Council have been reminded of its policy to consider "tangible" projects rather than operational expenditure.
A Broad Bay couple are calling for the Otago Regional Council to improve its resource consent processes for granting moorings
Otago Regional Council's search for land for a new depot on the Taieri Plain has come to an end, with plans to develop a site in the Otago Business Park development on Dukes Rd.
In April 2006, local authorities and emergency services swung into action to help the occupants of dozens of homes flooded on the Taieri Plain. Questions were asked about why houses had been built in a flood zone.
Calls for the Otago Regional Council to take a more proactive approach to wilding pine control in the Wakatipu have dominated the local body's annual plan submissions.
Local bodies could be seen to be neglectful if they did not use the information they had on flood risks to prevent development intensifying in flood-prone areas, a University of Otago lecturer says.
Worries an Environment Court decision allowing a family to build on a flood-prone section at Karitane could set a legal precedent has most Otago regional councillors urging the organisation to not let the matter drop.
Forums on the "far-reaching" changes proposed in the way the Otago Regional Council deals with water quality are struggling to attract their target audience - farmers.
Otago Conservation Board chairman Hoani Langsbury has not put himself forward for another term on the board.
Otago may have been declared to be in drought in early April but by the end of the month some towns in the region had received their first significant rainfall in nearly a year.
"Dirty dairying" on southwest Otago's tile-drained and mole-drained farms has for many years been in the headlines and now the Otago Regional Council has a scientific report proving intensive agriculture does affect water quality.
The implications of new government regulations directing councils to give discounts for late processing of resource consents are to be investigated by the Otago Regional Council.
With one working day to go before draft annual plan submissions close, the Otago Regional Council has only received about 35.
A Dunedin student's quest to study the brown tree frog is missing one important ingredient - frogs.
An Otago Regional Council attempt to stop a Karitane couple from building a home in a flood-prone area has failed, with the Environment Court saying there comes a point where a consent authority should not be "paternalistic".
Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Cairns will not be standing in the local body elections in October.