As heavy rain fell in Fiji again yesterday, residents and visitors were bracing for more flooding just days after a state of emergency was called to cope with last week's floods.
As hundreds, if not thousands, of hectares of beech trees around the South Island flower and seed profusely this summer, the potential for a population explosion in rats and stoats grows, threatening the hard work done to protect the nationally endangered mohua.
Ratepayers face a bill of more than $266,000 for the Otago Regional Council's response to a failed challenge against its Leith Lindsay Flood Protection Scheme - a response which the Environment Court describes as "excessive".
A new method of building walking tracks has helped the Dunedin City Council improve access to its golf course track at Ross Creek, Dunedin.
Playing her father's favourite music on the Dunedin Centre's Steinway piano is the best Christmas present Ailsa Howard could think of giving her father.
Christmas will never be the same again for the Williams and Savarimuthu families.
More anglers fishing without licences has led Fish and Game Otago to get tough this summer, promising offence notices, not warnings, will be issued to offenders.
The new city loop bus service, established in place of the Otago Regional Council's failed campus bus route, is showing early signs of promise.
A wet and chilly start to Christmas Day is forecast for Otago but the weather is expected to improve, MetService says.
Documentation on the Leith Lindsay Flood Protection Scheme has been delivered to the Otago Regional Council by its consultants, but it is not yet known if it will allow the project to move forward.
Native cedar trees in a "regionally distinct" cloud forest remnant have been mistakenly felled by the Department of Conservation during a major upgrade of the Leith Saddle Track, forcing an apology from Otago conservator Jeff Connell.
Dunedin's population of robins are special and should be protected, a University of Otago researcher says.
Host responsibility is at the forefront of organisers' minds before the Middlemarch Singles Ball at Easter.
A long-term vision for water management and allocation adopted by the Otago Regional Council will provide "direction and focus" as Otago tackles issues such as increased demand and the end of mining privileges.
Waterway patrol staff will visit Lake Waihola twice a week over summer as part of new measures to ensure people's safety on the popular recreational waterway.
A record 504 submissions supporting Tokomairiro Church in Milton has helped it receive category I registration with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Cairns is proposing his council look at restricting its activities to "core business", a concept that could mean it would not get involved in projects like the Otago Stadium in the future.
A Dunedin businessman has urged the Otago Regional Council to consider moving its offices to the former post office building rather than moving to its proposed waterfront site.
An apology has been issued to about 100 rural water users who were mistakenly charged an extra $715 each by the Otago Regional Council.
It is 20 years since many of them have been together, but the pink door of Dunedin's No 3 Clyde St has drawn its painters back to celebrate the heady days of 1988.