Rebecca Fox

Now its new flood protection bylaw has been adopted, it is up to the Otago Regional Council to ensure it is enforced, deputy chairman Stephen Woodhead says.

A last-ditch attempt by Cr Michael Deaker to delay the Otago Regional Council's Awatea St stadium decision failed yesterday, with the majority of councillors voting to support the $37.5 million funding proposal.

A Dunedin scientist and singer has succeeded in releasing a CD featuring New Zealand music aimed at highlighting the plight of the Hector's and Maui dolphins.

The debate over Awatea St might have dominated Otago Regional Council's annual plan discussions, but it should not overshadow a rates decrease and growth in core business, councillors say.

Bus services to Opoho and Shiel Hill will be more than doubled under a proposal by Citibus accepted by the Otago Regional Council yesterday.

The crayfish season had a "spectacular" start, but already approaching bad weather is starting to affect catches.

A visitor centre will soon be built at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary after the Dunedin City Council granted resource consent.

Toko Mouth resident Bruce McLean knew if he did not do something about the sea encroaching on the front of his home, it would not be around much longer.

Organisers hope seeing hundreds of hand-held lanterns twinkle their way around the Octagon will uplift and warm the public during Saturday's Midwinter Carnival.

It will be four years before Dunedin man Lyndon Perriman knows if his work helping to save endangered albatross considered a national treasure by the Japanese, has been a success.

Many of Otago's low-lying coastal communities are at risk from extensive inundation from storm events, a new report to the Otago Regional Council says.

Winter air pollution has exceeded national guidelines much earlier this year in Otago compared with 2007, mainly due to cool, calm climatic conditions, the Otago Regional Council says.

Surplus rainbow trout from Macraes hatchery have been released into reservoirs around Dunedin in the past week, providing a winter bonus for anglers.

Surplus rainbow trout from Macraes hatchery have been released into reservoirs around Dunedin in the past week, providing a winter bonus for anglers.

Dunedin man Rob Mitchell has been elected president of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand.

Rainfall in the southern hydroelectricity lake areas is "good news" even though it was not as much as first hoped, Raineffects hydrologist Dave Stewart says.

Otago recreational fishing representatives, still smarting from the Ministry of Fisheries decision to ban set netting along Otago's coast, have decided not to attend a shellfish management group meeting tonight.