Test results show high levels of bacteria near the Lake Hāwea Holiday Park and at Otokia Creek at Brighton Beach.

New Zealand authorities have announced that the recent outbreak of bird flu has been successfully contained to a single site ...

Otago Regional Council has apologised to almost 15,000 ratepayers after it identified two errors in recent rates invoices. The first affects 972 people in Oamaru where a new transport rate was ...

Central Otago is creating a strategy to shape its ... make it more affordable for families to live here. "Not only is the region trying to accommodate potentially 7000 extra seasonal staff ...

City councillor David Benson-Pope says the Otago Regional Council and its companies should get out of the way of development on Dunedin's waterfront. Port Otago has reaped a massive profit selling its ...

New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago.

“The biggest risk to Otago waterways is the further spread ... marine management of the Mercury Islands,” said Waikato Regional Council Coastal Science Team Leader Dr Michael Townsend.

The aquaculture industry in Southland, New Zealand, could be worth $1.5 billion a year — half of the country's $3 billion ...