Rebecca Fox

Saffron Lai (8) and her mother, Shiang-Feng Shen, reflected on becoming New Zealanders after a citizenship ceremony at the Dunedin Municipal Chambers this week.

Sitting among goods donated for her fundraising auction, 5-year-old Grace Hughes cannot help but smile.

There is no one solution to New Zealand's energy supply issues but a group of Otago scientists believes investing in "diversity" will go a long way towards easing them.

New fishing season licence holders will get a bonus week's fishing in Otago, but it does not mean an early opening of the region's brown trout fisheries.

Roaring through the surf in an inflatable rescue boat is the "ultimate challenge" for Brighton man Seth McPhee, who has been honoured with the New Zealand Surf Life Saving Volunteer of the Year award.

Veterinarian Tony Malthus was last night named as the 2009 Coastal Otago Conservation Award winner at a function in Dunedin.

Spending winter nights in a harness on a ledge of a cliff monitoring fairy prions is normal for Graeme Loh. Rebecca Fox talks to the Coastal Otago Conservation Award finalist about his hobby.

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.

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.

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.