Regions

Construction of a $52 million Ramada Hotel will start in Queenstown next month after a successful appeal in the Environment Court.

Forest and Bird is contemplating legal action over the granting of a non-notified consent by the Otago Regional Council which would destroy a protected wetland at the Remarkables skifield.

It used to be said, with a certain amount of incredulity, that 200 people worked at Wanaka Airport. Then someone did a proper count up, and the number is actually nearer 300. But what are those 300...

A team of Central Otago high school pupils will take on an Anglican parish on the issue of euthanasia tomorrow in what is described as an ‘‘extraordinary debate’’ by event organiser Michael Laws.

Otago regional councillor Ella Lawton denies claims she is using her influence as a councillor to receive special treatment for a project steering committee she chairs.

The Otago Regional Council’s chief executive  signed off a non-notified consent for a Remarkables skifield extension that other council planners refused to.

Some services will remain at Stand Children’s Services in Roxburgh, even though the village is closing  next Friday.

A community production of Les Miserablesis staging an extra night after near sell-out audiences.

A helicopter pilot who crashed in rugged terrain in the Catlins is lucky to be alive, police say.

The breeding season at the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony could start any day. Hamish Maclean talks to colony research scientist Dr Philippa Agnew about how researchers find out what the birds are up to.

It was something of an inevitability that Oamaru’s Maurice Ireland was going to make a career out of his artistic flair.

If being deaf, or hard of hearing, is supposed to be a disability, do not tell Doug Brand.