David Loughrey

"Frivolous" demands by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust are blocking a new Mediterranean garden planned for the Dunedin Botanic Garden, the project's developers say.

Dunedin parking officers are starting a crack-down on illegal parking on mobility spaces, and they are armed with a bigger stick to punish offenders.

Dunedin company Zeal Steel has won the contract to rebuild the Dunedin Railway Station overbridge.

After more than a year under the sand at St Kilda beach, Yvonne the tunnel-boring machine is back on dry ground.

A decision on the future of Dunedin's voting system has been put off so the Dunedin City Council can work out how to negotiate complex legislative rules.

The models were tall, the tea high and the lamingtons just the right shade of pink.

A Dunedin City Council committee will today consider whether the city will retain the single transferable vote (STV) system or go back to the first past the post (FPP) method.

The Carisbrook Stadium Trust's target for private-sector funding for the Awatea St stadium has jumped by $10 million to $55.5 million.

Dunedin's two most prominent gardens are sharing their greenery, with native rata and beech trees taking a trip across town from the botanic garden to help beautify the Chinese garden.

Four months of "long hours and hard work" were recognised on Wednesday night, when 14 Territorial Force soldiers from the 4th Otago-Southland Battalion received medals for their service in the Solomon Islands, and one for service in East Timor.

The Dunedin City Council has managed to cut the time it takes to process building consents from up to eight weeks to less than two.

The Dunedin City Council has written off a debt of almost $400,000, after the manufacturer of its rubbish bags went into liquidation.

There may be less drill practice, and the uniforms and badges have changed, but the First Dunedin Girls Brigade Company is still going strong at its Caversham birthplace after 80 years.

The East Otago community sports and cultural centre is starting to make its presence felt in Waikouaiti as building progresses.

Court documents for a New Zealand Historic Places Trust prosecution of the Dunedin City Council show the trust was claiming it was not informed in advance of archaeological work at the council's Wall Street development.