Chris Morris

A multimillion-dollar blueprint for Dunedin's transport future aims to lift the city off the bottom rung of New Zealand's road safety ladder, the Dunedin City Council says.

Dunedin city councillor Fliss Butcher has abandoned plans to quit local politics and will instead campaign for the Waitaki mayoralty.

Dunedin city councillors have backed a plan to underwrite the New Zealand Masters Games for any future loss, in return for a deal securing the event's future in the city for two decades.

Calls for accountability were met with pleas for a trial before a hanging as Dunedin city councillors considered the failure of the St Clair sea wall yesterday.

A family is without a home, and a small community without their shop, after a major fire ripped through the historic Dunback Store at the weekend.

Sports and community groups in Dunedin fear being left out of pocket if a push to cap the number of poker machines in the city is successful.

The sale of Carisbrook to construction company Calder Stewart has been confirmed, but details of its future remain unclear.

Hilary Calvert has joined the race for the Dunedin mayoralty, saying she hopes to cash in on disillusionment with Dave Cull's performance in his first term.

Dunedin City Holdings Ltd chief executive Bevan Dodds is to lose his job as the Dunedin City Council tightens its grip on the financial affairs of its companies.

An appeal by the company bidding to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin takes a ''shotgun approach'' to the decision to refuse consent, one of its solicitors says.

An energy plan that caused sparks to fly in Dunedin is now attracting ''fantastic'' interest from the public, the Dunedin City Council says.

A website designed to get people talking certainly had the desired effect last night.

The organisers of nine major events in Dunedin have received a cash injection totalling almost $400,000 from the Dunedin City Council.

The starter's gun has fired, but candidates racing for electoral success in Dunedin are not exactly setting a cracking early pace.

A compromise could be close as heritage building advocates and a developer continue to haggle over the fate of a block of Princes St buildings in a protected Dunedin townscape.

Dunedin's multimillion-dollar cycleway plans have hit a speed bump after opposition from a group of businesses forced part of the new network to be put on hold.

Two jobs have been saved, but 38 will still go after infrastructure company Delta yesterday confirmed the details of redundancies within its Dunedin operation.

A landowner embroiled in a dispute over Saddle Hill quarrying is threatening to take the Dunedin City Council to the Environment Court for a second time.