Fortune Theatre's production Four Flat Whites in Italy has broken a 22-year record, becoming the most popular single season of a play staged at the theatre.
Pikao, a plant which has almost disappeared from Otago's coast, has won the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network's 2009 favourite plant poll.
Strange, variable, mad - are some of the adjectives used to describe Otago's weather for most of this year.
Otago Regional Council's "unseen" contribution to economic development has become clearer, with the development of a policy for promoting economic development and community prosperity.
John Bradley has been collecting weather data for more than 30 years, mostly from his home in Balaclava.
A major breakthrough in the fight to preserve the critically endangered kakapo has been made, with paternity tests revealing artificial insemination has produced two chicks, the Department of Conservation says.
A reduction in the estimated number of accidental fishing-related deaths of threatened New Zealand sea lions is still not low enough, the Dunedin-based New Zealand Sea Lion Trust says.
Dunedin shoppers are joining the national trend of spending the same or less on Christmas gifts this year.
A lack of protection for fisheries at risk of collapse along the East Otago coastline during the busy summer fishing season has led Karitane recreational and customary fishermen to implement voluntary restrictions for a second year.
News that Australian nun Mary MacKillop will be canonised has been welcomed in Dunedin.
The Taieri River has missed out on the recent rainfall which gave a brief respite to many other Otago waterways.
Former Dunedin opera singers Anna Leese and Robert Tucker have swapped the stage for the movie set as they bring to life one of Katherine Mansfield's short stories.
A giant iceberg, 115sq km in size, moving slowly from the Antarctic has been spotted on satellite images and is about 5000km from Dunedin.
Toxins such as organic pollutants have been ruled out as the cause of deformities in endangered yellow-eyed penguins at Okia Reserve last summer.
A baby Hector's dolphin has washed up dead at Purakaunui Inlet.
Telecom XT's 12-hour service failure, which affected about 100,000 customers south of Taupo yesterday, raises serious issues about the design of the network, a telecommunications watchdog says.
A report of an iceberg floating near Stewart Island has proved to be premature.
Winds gusting up to gale force caused delays to traffic in and out of Port Otago and Dunedin airport yesterday - and there is expected to be no let-up today.
Inspections of Otago dairy farms have shown the level of effluent pollution has more than halved on the previous two years.
Working within the bureaucratic and cultural constraints that come with running the Royal Albatross Centre at Taiaroa Head has left manager Sam Inder with feelings of both frustration and achievement over the years.