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Otago Regional Council - Latest News [Page 5]
Now We Have Candidates, Time To Do Your Research
Tuesday, 19 August 2025, 10:13 am | Otago Regional Council
With changes to the numbers of councillors in Dunedin and Dunstan wards and STV voting across the whole region, the 2025 Otago Regional Council elections will be a little different. More >>
ORC Modifying Its Shotover Testing Regime
Wednesday, 13 August 2025, 12:19 pm | Otago Regional Council
This decision balances the need to ensure a robust monitoring programme which provides assurance to the people of Queenstown and downstream from the discharge, with the need to ensure prudent financial management, where appropriate monitoring and oversight ... More >>
Legislative Solution Found For Otago’s Farmers, Growers, And Water Users
Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 10:27 am | Otago Regional Council
ORC immediately sought to work with the Government to find a solution which made sure these issues would not result in further expensive and time-consuming processes for the Otago community. More >>
Last Call For Nominations With A Week To Go
Monday, 28 July 2025, 12:51 pm | Otago Regional Council
We’re pleased to see that nominations are coming in, but we have seen occasions where people have left it too late, and for one reason or another their nomination has needed correction and resubmission and so missed the cut off. More >>
Oamaru Meeting For ORC Next Week
Friday, 18 July 2025, 10:35 am | Otago Regional Council
“We like to take as many full Council meetings as possible around the regions each year, not only to reflect on work being done locally but to engage with communities in their home districts and better understand what is most important to them,” ... More >>
“Prestigious” New Build Name Solidified In The Otago Environment
Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 10:13 am | Otago Regional Council
Aonui is a prestigious name that encapsulates Kāi Tahu identity throughout time, Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou Ūpoko Edward Ellison says. More >>
QLDC’s Shotover Consent Applications Going Direct To Environment Court – ORC
Friday, 11 July 2025, 1:11 pm | Otago Regional Council
In its 27 June letter to ORC, QLDC put forward several reasons to ORC for direct referral to the Environment Court, including that the referral would save all parties “considerable time and money”. More >>
Assessment Shows Little Gravel Build Up In Clutha River
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 9:42 am | Otago Regional Council
Otago Regional Council commissioned NIWA (now Earth Sciences New Zealand) to undertake an assessment of the river morphology – the shape of the river channel and how it has changed through time. More >>
New Form Sends Your Pest Sightings Direct To ORC’s Biosecurity Team
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 9:34 am | Otago Regional Council
Priority pests are a significant environmental concern that have either not yet established, or not widely established and have the potential to cause substantial harm, such as Moth plant or the Freshwater Gold Clam. More >>
Coastal Survey Of Molyneux Bay Starts Shortly – ORC
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:35 am | Otago Regional Council
ORC’s Natural Hazards Analyst, Julion [JULION] Wright, says the survey is to determine the current dimensions of the coastal Clutha “sand wedge” deposit, which ultimately spills river sediment into the Southern Ocean. More >>
ORC Monitoring Closely As Heavy Rain Hits Eastern Otago With Snow Inland
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 2:06 pm | Otago Regional Council
Coastal Dunedin bore the brunt of rainfall overnight – approximately 25-50mm, with other parts of Otago getting 20-50mm. Rainfall has eased in North Otago but Dunedin could see a further 20-30mm and 30-40mm for Clutha. More >>
Caution Over Worsening Weather Conditions – ORC
Friday, 27 June 2025, 6:00 pm | Otago Regional Council
Metservice upgrade Otago snow/rain warnings More >>
Free Buses For Rugby Test Match – ORC
Friday, 27 June 2025, 4:10 pm | Otago Regional Council
Fans travelling to the game on any of ORC’s Orbus bus services must show their match tickets to the driver to get free travel – which is valid for two hours before and about one hour after the match. More >>
New $2m Large-Scale Environmental Fund Endorsed By ORC
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 10:46 am | Otago Regional Council
The $2 million per-year fund will initially be funded from Council reserves and comes into effect from 1 July 2025. The new fund is separate from the ORC’s annual ECO Fund. More >>
Children’s Bus Fares Being Re-Introduced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 9:29 pm | Otago Regional Council
Councillors agreed to write to the Minister of Transport, Minister of Education and Associate Minister of Education to express concern about the unintended consequences of raising child fares to meet private share which could potentially affect school ... More >>
Otago Regional Council Adopts Annual Plan – 5.5% Rates Increase
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 2:46 pm | Otago Regional Council
ORC Chairperson Gretchen Robertson says contributing to the less than forecast rates increase were cuts to some planned public transport upgrades, reprioritisation of environmental implementation funding, reduced inflation costs and work to gain efficiencies. More >>
ORC To Consider Public Transport Changes
Monday, 23 June 2025, 11:02 am | Otago Regional Council
The decisions are a result of ORC’s review of the Otago Regional Public Transport Plan (RPTP). The RPTP attracted 549 public submissions, with hearings held in May this year. More >>
Majority Of 53 Climate Change Actions ‘On Track’ – ORC
Monday, 23 June 2025, 9:09 am | Otago Regional Council
The report summarises the progress of actions of the ORC’s Climate Strategy and its effectiveness in coordinating and highlighting the climate-related work across ORC – covering the six months since it was adopted by ORC, in December 2024. More >>
Orbus On Demand: A New Electric Rideshare Service Debuting In Mosgiel
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 7:41 pm | Otago Regional Council
The service is replacing the Mosgiel loop service (Routes 80 and 81), which ends at 6pm on Friday, 27 June. The new on demand bus service will run weekdays from 8am to 6pm. More >>
Environment Court Decision Following ORC Application For Enforcement Order
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 10:02 am | Otago Regional Council
ORC’s Chief Executive Richard Saunders welcomed delivery of the decision and Enforcement Orders, ultimately to “avoid, remedy and/or mitigate adverse environmental effects” caused by operation of the QLDC-owned Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant. More >>
