Chris Morris

The Dalai Lama is here to talk, but exactly what Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has to say about the visit remains a secret.

The company bidding to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin has been given its answer, but what that answer is remains a secret.

Plans for a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin have been rejected.

The company bidding to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin is considering its options after the project was rejected by the Dunedin City Council's hearings committee yesterday.

Nothing is off the table as the developers behind the foiled bid to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin consider their options, Betterways Advisory Ltd director Steve Rodgers says.

University Book Shop staff in Dunedin are said to feel ''betrayed'' after being handed redundancy notices yesterday and invited to reapply for their jobs.

The Dunedin City Council and its chief executive, Paul Orders, are still not commenting on speculation he could be a contender for a job back in Wales.

Dunedin City Council chief executive Paul Orders has turned down a $35,000-a-year pay rise, saying the increase cannot be justified when the organisation is in savings mode.

The developers behind a proposed $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin have a back-up plan if their bid is rejected by the Dunedin City Council.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull faces a political challenge - possibly from all sides - as the race for the city's robe and chains later this year begins to heat up.

Bankrupt businessman Olivier Lequeux wants to swap the horse stables for the mayor's office.

Calder Stewart has plans to demolish almost all of Carisbrook.

The Forsyth Barr Stadium crowd is diversifying, but the punters still love their beer and chips, the company running the venue says.

Dunedin city councillor Syd Brown faces a political pincer move after Greater Dunedin named a new candidate to contest the Mosgiel-Taieri ward.

Developers plan to spend ''about $3 million'' turning a muddy builders' yard in the Dunedin suburb of Fairfield into an industrial park with a difference.

The bid to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin has been criticised for failing to deliver crucial information, but the man promoting the project says the information would not have helped.

A Dunedin city councillor's subdivision in Mosgiel has gained approval to almost double in size, with a $426,000 bill attached.

Recommendations for change within the Dunedin City Council's group of companies are soon to be unveiled, Dunedin City Holdings Ltd chairman Denham Shale says.

The former boss of Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium has swapped one thorny stadium debate for another.