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.
Dunedin City Baptist church is proposing to build a large facility on 7.4ha of rural land beside Dunedin's southern motorway at Concord.
The weather may have been marginal yesterday morning, but that did not stop Bluff's fleet of 11 oyster boats heading out on the first day of the season.
Otago fishermen are upset at an implication they could be to blame for a Hector's dolphin found mutilated on Moeraki beach last month.
Oyster lovers will be praying for reasonable weather tomorrow, allowing the oyster season to open as planned, especially in light of early indications this year's oysters will be bigger and better.
Thousands of New Zealand's rarest and most threatened fish may be relocated to the Waianakarua River in North Otago to provide a back-up population to their home in the Kauru River, which is under threat from didymo.
About 800 paua off Katiki Pt, south of Moeraki, have been tagged as Otago fishermen seek to determine how well paua are growing in the area.
By upgrading the Leaning Lodge hut in the Rock and Pillar Conservation Park, a trust hopes to preserve the facility for the next generation.
If the past week of sou'westers has you wondering where summer has gone, do not worry - more warm weather is still to come.
Dunedin's bus timetable and route information is now accessible to the blind, making it easier for the visually impaired to get around town, Otago Association of Blind Citizens chairman Dave Allen says.
Major flooding and damage were averted during the past four to five days of persistent rain along Otago's coast due to a lack of heavy downpours, local authorities say.
The weather may be miserable but that has yet to deter some hardy fishermen who were yesterday setting up camp on Otago Harbour wharves, ready for a good weekend of fishing.
Rex Haig is worn out.
Otago local authorities and industries need to join forces to lobby for a $3 million weather radar to be installed in the region to give early warnings of thunderstorms and heavy downpours, Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Cairns says.
Dunedin residents who live, work and play in and around Otago Harbour expressed their support last night for the concept of a mataitai reserve, although some believed there should be at least some room for commercial fishing.
The Dunedin City Council is seeking broad-coverage resource consents from the Otago Regional Council for routine maintenance work in an effort to save $50,000 to $100,000 from its roading department's budget.
The Department of Conservation's decision to accept $175,000 from Meridian Energy - if the Project Hayes wind farm project goes ahead - is "pragmatic" and saves wasting money in the Environment Court, a rival company says.
For the first time in four years, the Bike Wise Mayoral Challenge required sunscreen rather than winter woollies, much to the enjoyment of its main participants.
Playing to a crowd of families and young people enjoying the sun at the Lions Lark in the Park yesterday, young Dunedin musician Mitchell Smith lapped up the atmosphere.
One man was flown to Dunedin Hospital and three others taken to Dunstan Hospital after a trailer tipped on private land in the Lindis Pass, near Goodger Rd, on Saturday.
