A last-minute bid which raised the price $1000 was all it took for Richelle Williams to become the owner of the Otago Community Hospice charity house on Saturday.
A German television star filming on a yellow-eyed penguin reserve on Otago Peninsula hopes to be able to raise awareness and funds back home for the endangered species.
It might have been late arriving in Dunedin, but that did not dim the enthusiasm of more than 200 passengers who caught a rare commuter train from Waitati yesterday.
Response to a proposal to eradicate possums from Otago Peninsula has been mostly positive in a survey as a series of meetings on the topic are held for residents.
It is important the Otago Regional Council makes sure any "tinkering" with the Resource Management Act is in the best interests of the Otago region, councillors say.
Many of the Otago Regional Council's new bus services are "booming" but some, including the new city loop service, are "doomed" because of low passenger numbers.
Otago Regional Council's decision to contribute to funding Otago Stadium is not being consulted on in its upcoming long-term planning consultation, but that did not stop the issue becoming a debating point yesterday.
Despite facing some major projects in coming years, the Otago Regional Council has managed to keep its proposed general rate increase for 2009-10 to 1%.
There will be plenty of noise at the Taieri Airport Wings and Wheels Event tomorrow as aircraft and vehicles of all types and uses go on display, in the air and on the ground.
Four skippers, including at least two from Dunedin, are being investigated for refusing to take an observer on board during the Ministry of Fisheries Hector's dolphin programme.
The Otago Regional Council's proposed office block at Steamer Basin is in "limbo" after a challenge by Cr Doug Brown for more public consultation before a tender for the project is accepted.
A plastic turkey drumstick, partial denture, horse blanket and even a live common skink turned up at the Coastal Cleanup headquarters yesterday as volunteers sorted through 1425kg of rubbish.