An ''iconic projects fund'' to provide large injections of council funding to a ''top-10'' list of large-scale heritage projects in Dunedin has been mooted by Dunedin City Council staff.
Negotiations are continuing over the purchase of a small corridor of land that would connect Dunedin's west harbour cycle/pedestrian track with the city.
Feedback over the past year has prompted the Dunedin City Council to review in what order it widens sections of Otago Peninsula roads to fix sea walls and add shared paths for cyclists and pedestrians.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is keeping an eye on a section of Cumberland St, in Dunedin, where old lane markings mix with the new, potentially confusing motorists.
A rotating digital camera taking photos at regular intervals will be set up in the central part of the Dunedin Botanic Garden this week as an interim security measure until closed-circuit television can be installed.
Closed-curcuit television is to be installed at the Dunedin Botanic Garden after vandals damaged the city's latest piece of public art.
The maximum time period on the 13 pay-and-display parks outside Dunedin Hospital on Cumberland St between Hanover and Frederick Sts, is to be increased from four hours to all day in an attempt to make the area safer for cyclists.
A new rule allowing freedom camping for non self-contained vehicles at three sites around Dunedin is proving so popular the Dunedin City Council might alter its servicing arrangements for toilets and rubbish bins to cope with demand.
A taxi driver feels lucky to have escaped death after his taxi was swept away by the swollen Silver Stream, near Dunedin.
A brief deluge yesterday had central Dunedin on standby again as the mop-up continues from a storm on Monday that overwhelmed the city's stormwater system.
The vast majority of the 2000 submissions on Dunedin's State Highway 1 separated cycle-lane proposal favour a one-direction lane on both one-way streets.
If street food is the rage in other parts of the world, Dunedin seems to be catching on relatively slowly. But it is catching on. Debbie Porteous finds out you might have to try a little harder to find it than simply walking down any CBD street, but these days you can locate delicious, exciting and cheap feed somewhere in the city at some part of the day, most days of the week, without having to bother with the trappings of a cafe or a restaurant dining room.
The redeveloped Speight's Brewery in Dunedin is expected to be officially opened in late February, as the last work is completed.
The month he spent in the Philippines setting up new emergency communications links for the Red Cross after Typhoon Haiyan highlighted the value of communications systems and how they made things easier during a major emergency, a Dunedin man says.
There were a few mutters of ''about time'' from onlookers as an excavator took a day yesterday to demolish two historic Dunedin buildings that had stood partially collapsed in Rattray St for three years.
The car park at the rear of the former Dunedin chief post office building in central Dunedin has been cleared in anticipation of the start of construction of a multilevel parking building on the site.
Some smaller Dunedin tour and shuttle operators say a new booking system for cruise-ship passengers is putting them out of business.
The cost of having the Dunedin City Council take a greater role in improving the resilience of the city's food supply is to be investigated.
Alfie the cat is very good at fetch.
Seeing the bright lights of some major American cities has given the man responsible for a street lighting revolution set for Dunedin some solid ideas.
