A heart attack may have led George Sutherland to clean up Dunedin's walking tracks but it is a love of being out in the bush that has kept him at it. Rebecca Fox talks to a finalist in the 2009 Coastal Otago Conservation Awards.
Dwindling supplies at Dunedin foodbanks have been bolstered with more than 1000 cans from participants in the Undie 500.
Dunedin came up short in its goal to divert 45 tonnes of e-waste from its landfill during eDay on Saturday.
Two Taieri Rd couples are applying to have a "significant" Wellingtonia tree removed, as access to their homes increasingly becomes a health and safety concern.
Otago residents get involved in conservation in a variety of ways, many of which will be displayed during Conservation Week, Department of Conservation community relations ranger Liz Sherwood says.
Community support for the Hughes family was "fantastic" at a quiz night to raise money to get daughter Grace to Austria for treatment.
Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand officially opened Habitat for Humanity's ReStore shop in Dunedin yesterday.
The defence of claiming that large numbers of paua in your freezer are the result of many previous da
The Otago Regional Council believes the collapsible floodgates at the head of the Lower Clutha floodway should be removed.
Licensed anglers and hunters, especially younger ones, are being urged to stand in the forthcoming Otago Fish and Game Council elections.
A discovery of new links between southern right whales from the subantarctic Auckland Islands and the mainland of New Zealand is very "exciting", Department of Conservation marine mammal national co-ordinator Steve Smith says.
Regular inspections and removal of nassella tussock to prevent its spread will be continued by the Otago Regional Council.
When Marian van der Goes takes over as Otago conservator on Monday, she will be the first woman to do so and only the second in New Zealand. Rebecca Fox talks to the woman who will step into the shoes filled by Jeff Connell for 20 years.
Winter air quality monitoring in Otago has ended, with results showing the number of times towns in the region exceeded the national standard was much lower than during last winter.
Passenger transport in Dunedin remains a "hospital pass" as the Otago Regional Council pours money into improving bus services without a corresponding passenger increase, council chief executive Graeme Martin says.
Dunedin public transport passengers continue to have a positive view of their bus services but their rating of its value for money has dipped, possibly because of a 25% increase in fares, a customer satisfaction survey report says.
Setting a targeted rate to help pay for improvements to Queenstown's bus services has been postponed for 12 months after a delay in securing funding from the New Zealand Transport Agency.
Nothing is more frustrating than arriving at a bus stop to find no timetable, but the Otago Regional Council says the problem is not always its fault.
Its youngest passenger in the past year was a premature baby, its oldest, an 87-year-old man injured in a crash - the essential help the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust gives to people like these has been boosted by a good financial year.
Last month was the warmest August on record in New Zealand - and Otago was no exception, with temperatures in Dunedin breaking a 62-year record and Cromwell more than 3degC warmer than average.