A 144-year physical presence of the Anglican church in Lawrence is about to end, but services will continue in the West Otago township.
Dogs make their owners very happy. But why is having a dog becoming more of a financial commitment than it ever was? Debbie Porteous takes a look at a Dunedin dog's world.
The days of overflowing sewage in Kaikorai Valley are numbered as the Dunedin City Council prepares to spend about $7 million on a once-in-100-year wastewater pipe replacement.
The proposal for a new $15 million swimming pool in Mosgiel comes under the noses of Dunedin city councillors for the first time on Monday.
The Dunedin City Council will fund the central business district cardboard collection service following the contractor's decision to stop providing the service.
Health conditions, such as asthma and diabetes, affect many people in our communities. Debbie Porteous talks about her own personal experience of how hypothyroidism affects her life.
Dunedin motor vehicle dealers are anxious to dissociate themselves from the Citifleet fraud, saying the car yards involved need to be named publicly to stop suspicion falling on all.
The Dunedin City Council has done some ''pretty good work in a pretty short period of time'' to turn its systems around, Deloitte partner Kyle Cameron, the lead investigator of the Citifleet fraud, says.
The Deloitte report into a more than $1.5 million fraud at the Dunedin City Council revealed it went beyond the sale of 152 council-owned vehicles.
The South Island's first co-housing community has been given approval to set up in Dunedin.
A weak internal culture at the Dunedin City Council allowed a staff member to get away with spending $100,000 of ratepayers' money on personal items using a council fuel card, the company that investigated the fraud says.
The Dunedin City Council is to rename the University Oval the University of Otago Oval.
The restoration of Dunedin's Ross Creek Reservoir is expected to begin early next year after being delayed until authorities agree on how it should be repaired.
The debate over quarrying on Saddle Hill is intensifying, but it is not without a sense of deja vu. Debbie Porteous takes a look at a gravel pit that has generated almost as much debate as stone in the past 50 years.
A prominent historic harbourside building and a former student pub have been given rates relief as part of a policy to preserve Dunedin's heritage buildings.
The Dunedin City Council is to adopt a new process to deal with requests to not pay some or all of required development contributions.
Moving the alcohol display area at Countdown's Cumberland St supermarket in Dunedin would cost the store more than $1million, its owner says.
Dunedin city councillors will wait until a proposal for a new aquatic centre in Mosgiel is assessed by staff, before discussing it.
The Dunedin City Council is to adopt a new fraud prevention policy.
Stability will be to the fore as the Dunedin City Council casts a critical eye over more than 4000 of the city's retaining walls.