A Purakaunui landowner is proposing a coastal reserve around Potato Point could be a compromise which could break the deadlock over development on the headland.
A suggestion a report on the economic value of New Zealand's sport fishery is needed has caused some controversy within Fish and Game.
Fish and Game Otago is to appeal to its national body to support research into the impact of didymo on the Upper Clutha.
An investigation has been launched after bait pellets laced with rat poison fell from a helicopter into a lake on a remote Fiordland island during a Department of Conservation poisoning operation.
Proposals to amend national air-quality standards are not a ticket to "get out of jail" for Otago residents needing to meet the region's more stringent requirements, Otago Regional councillor Duncan Butcher says.
It is "quite critical" the Otago Regional Council pushes ahead with its efforts to further the investigation of rabbit control methods as quickly as possible, Cr Stephen Woodhead said.
Otago Regional Council might have "pulled back" from its multimillion-dollar waterfront building, but it still desperately needs a more suitable premises, Cr Michael Deaker says.
Unless a recent change in the New Zealand sea lion's status to the highest risk of extinction leads to ways to reduce it becoming bycatch at sea, the population will continue to decline, the New Zealand Sea Lion Trust says.
A group of Taieri upper pond ratepayers claim their lives and livelihoods were put at "unnecessary risk" by the early dropping of flood gates without consultation during last month's floods.
The Otago Regional Council has adopted its annual plan for the 2010-11 year and the resulting rating resolution which was described by corporate services director Wayne Scott as mostly "business as usual".
An $8 increase in the price of an adult full-season licence has been proposed for the coming fishing season.
When the Otago Regional Council looked at options for new premises for a second time, all cost-effective possibilities must be explored, councillors concluded at a recent workshop.
A new system to track how bus operators deal with passenger complaints has been set up by the Otago Regional Council in the wake of an "alarming" increase in unhappy customers.
Two submissions have been received on the proposal to develop a draft management plan for Taiaroa Head and its wildlife reserves.
Concerns Fish and Game may be spending too much money on legal fights is just "scaremongering", Otago Fish and Game councillor Dave Witherow says.
The estimated cost of fixing the damage to Dunedin's roads from last month's coastal flooding has nearly doubled and the damage to Otago's highways is estimated to be about $300,000.
Water was an essential of life and as such New Zealanders could not afford to let water services be privatised, Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei told an audience in the Octagon on Saturday.
Despite concerns an Environment Court decision allowing a house to be built on a flood-prone section at Karitane could set a legal precedent, the Otago Regional Council has not appealed the decision.
The implications of Port Otago's next generation plans are bringing the Careys Bay Association out of recess.
There are not many times that silence reigns when about 100 pupils congregate in a school hall, but a regional schools chess competition, where the only sounds are the click of pieces on the board, proved to be just such an occasion.
