Debbie Porteous

A major year-long project to repair Dunedin's Ross Creek Reservoir is expected to begin in October.

In the week a 90-year-old woman caused a serious crash after driving the wrong way along Dunedin's Southern Motorway, Debbie Porteous takes a look at issue of older drivers on New Zealand roads.

A fault in a central Dunedin parking meter that spewed money instead of accepting it has been fixed.

A Dunedin family has received an apology from the Dunedin City Council after it euthanised the family's beloved pet dog.

Dawn Ibbotson (99) reluctantly gave up driving about six years ago because she knew her age potentially made her a danger to herself and others.

When he saw the chairs set out in neat rows for visitors, City of Dunedin Cadet Unit commander Captain Kevin Weir knew something was up.

The Dunedin City Council wants packaging to be on a short-list of products the Government is considering for regulation via mandatory ''product waste stewardship'' schemes.

There are no plans to make families apply for permission to scatter their loved ones' ashes in public places in Dunedin, as announced this week in Auckland, but scattering of ashes in city parks and recreational areas is already ''discouraged''.

The arguments of a lone Dunedin city councillor seeking to have the South Dunedin Cycle Network stopped in its tracks fell largely on deaf ears yesterday.

Although more than 90% of Dunedin's land area is not susceptible to liquefaction, a substantial portion of its population and some important commercial, industrial and infrastructural assets sit on land that possibly is, a GNS Science report says.

Decisions on the most controversial routes of the South Dunedin Cycle Network will be saved until last.

The number of assessments outstanding, a shortage of structural engineers and continued uncertainty about the Government's plans for earthquake-prone buildings has led the Dunedin City Council to consider extending its deadline for building assessments.

A Middlemarch woman's efforts to compile material about the area in the 1950s has gone so well she has decided to continue the project into subsequent decades.

Restrictions on potential mobile trading sites in the Octagon, including requirements to have traffic safety plans, have been labelled a ''farce'' by some traders.

If, as one city councillor said this week, any decision involving road changes will upset some people, then inserting a large network of new cycleways on top of existing streets must be up there as a challenge for a city.

Financial sustainability, a new funding model for Forsyth Barr Stadium and detecting potential fraud might be its highest priorities risks, Audit NZ has suggested to the Dunedin City Council's new audit and risk subcommittee.