Rebecca Fox

Concerns about the health risk from eating trout that have eaten mice contaminated with 1080 should not stop anglers enjoying the new fishing season, Fish and Game Otago says.

Dunedin tourist industry representatives have been warned to prepare for a boomer cruise ship season next summer.

Walkers head out on the inaugural Wellness Walk from King's High School, in Dunedin, yesterday.

It's a tall order: beautify the walls of buildings in and around Dunedin's warehouse precinct.

Sam Gilchrist took a deep breath and, with flowers in hand, strode out before 3500 people at Forsyth Barr Stadium last night as the big screen lit up with the big question.

After years of struggling, the Otago crayfish fishery is starting to produce again.

Keeping ''an eye on the end game'' - major conservation gains - kept the Department of Conservation's Tony Perrett in the game of tenure review for decades, even when the going got tough.

Mosgiel RSA's $1million redevelopment will finally begin this month after four years of planning and hiccups.

Jim Curline is a master of the art of tying fishing flies.

Inspiration from a Taieri Times article about the Big Rock Protect Our Penguins Group's efforts to save blue penguins from dog attacks led a group of Outram School pupils to brainstorm ways they could help the group safeguard the birds as part of their technology curriculum studies and school challenge to contribute to the community.

Whatever New Zealand does, it should not ignore science as it amends and develops its resource management legislation, US environmental law specialist Prof J. B. Ruhl says.

Waking up in your student hostel room, your hands clenched and your body so sore you can't get out of bed sounds like a nightmare.

The war memorial and gates on the site of the former High Street School in Mornington have received category 2 historic listing.

An application from Otakou runanga for a mataitai covering most of Otago Harbour has generated submissions from 20 people and organisations.

After about 30 years at its Bath St site in central Dunedin, Anglican Family Care plans to move its operations to the former McKenzie and Willis building next year.

Former Silver Ferns manager and Gore High School deputy principal Jackie Barron is returning south to become principal of St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin.

A group of Taieri young people are looking for a ''buddy''.

If New Zealand sea lion numbers are to increase, effort needs to be put into helping adults survive, biologist Stefan Meyer says.