Debbie Porteous

The Otago Racing Club has a battle on its hands over its plans to subdivide part of Wingatui racecourse.

A Dunedin city planner has added her disapproval to a proposal to paint the concrete panels of John Wickliffe House.

The artists are lining up for Dunedin's first street art festival in October, and the city council is lining up to support them too, to the tune of $10,000.

Macandrew Bay's floating pontoon is out of action after last week's strong winds damaged it beyond repair.

It is hoped a plan will be in place by the end of the month to finally put an end to the confusion over a section of Portobello Rd, in Dunedin.

Dunedin authorities have ordered that several election signs be removed after they were put up in the wrong places.

Plans are progressing on the Waihola Looking Forward group's latest large project, although there is a lot of hard work to go, its chairman says.

The Dunedin City Council is investigating how it could complete widening Portobello and Harington Point Rds in four years instead of nine.

A Dunedin developer is proposing to build up to 19 new student flats around the former ''fever hospital'' near Logan Park.

Susan Dovey bought her Bond St apartment in 2012, after living 28 years in an Andersons Bay villa, and says she would happily live in the inner city until she dies.

Cyclist numbers are on the rise on Portsmouth Dr since new cycleways have been made in the area, in apparent opposition to claims nobody in Dunedin cycles.

The Dunedin City Council has been forced to pare back original plans for the controversial South Dunedin Cycle Network, as the true costs of the project become apparent.

A Dunedin business owner potentially affected by changes to an intersection on the route of the new harbourside cycleway has threatened to move his enterprise to Auckland.

Mosgiel is in line for a new playground, if people want it.

Street art - once treated as a form of vandalism - is now celebrated public art in many of the world's most creative cities, such as Melbourne and Berlin. Debbie Porteous speaks to some who think Dunedin could also become a world-class destination for street art and are doing their darndest to make it happen.

Turning Forbury Park racecourse into a lake, building a wall around it or raising the whole area have been rejected as options for defending Dunedin's harbourside and south city areas from sea-level rise.

The cause of a rash that affected at least seven senior Dunedin rugby players remains a mystery after soil tests showed no fertiliser build-up that would have caused the outbreak.