Chris Morris

Part of the Speight's Brewery in Dunedin will be demolished to make room for the $29 million expansion of its operation.

After spending more than $30 million on consultants in three years, Dunedin City Council staff are under pressure to slash spending on outside help, it has been confirmed.

Dunedin-based company Delta is to recruit more staff after securing $5.5 million in new contracts for earthquake reconstruction work in Christchurch.

The Dunedin City Council faces a "pretty major" decision when plans for the management of the city's $1.6 billion water network are finally revealed, Cr Andrew Noone says.

A motorist who drove off after allegedly running a red light and colliding with another car in Dunedin crashed into a second car moments later, only to again flee the scene.

Dunedin City Holdings Ltd - flush with a full complement of new directors - is now expected to turn its attention to a review of its subsidiary companies' assets.

The smiles were as big as the giant bubbles taking flight outside the Dunedin Railway Station on Saturday.

A message of peace was underscored by the booming of taiko drummers at a peace vigil at Otago Museum in Dunedin on Saturday.

The Dunedin City Council faces a six-figure bill for conserving the remains of a manuka causeway unearthed in Dunedin.

The Dunedin Chinese Garden could be in for a shake-up as visitor numbers continue to decline, leaving ratepayers to foot more of the bill.

Headline acts and headline-grabbing financial problems have dominated the first year of operation at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium, but the crowds are continuing to flood in. Chris Morris reports.

Allegations and threats flew when a Dunedin City Council meeting erupted yesterday over claims the organisation was relying on millions of dollars in loans to keep rates down.

Dunedin ratepayers are on the right side of the scoreboard, despite receiving just a fraction of what had been hoped for from last month's North-South charity rugby clash, Mayor Dave Cull insists.

A casting vote by Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull was needed to settle renewed divisions over fracking at a Dunedin City Council meeting yesterday.

Chants of "four more years" could soon be ringing out inside the Dunedin City Council chambers.

Dunedin remains in the running to become an oil base, despite the decision by oil giant Anadarko Petroleum to delay bringing a drilling rig into southern waters, a Dunedin city councillor says.

One of the Dunedin City Council's most recognisable faces, communications co-ordinator Rodney Bryant, has announced his retirement.

The Dunedin City Council wants to delegate responsibility for the future distribution of pokie funds to avoid a potentially costly conflict of interest, if the Government opts to hand the role to local authorities.

Dunedin City Council parking infringement notices are to double in size, on August 1, from the current 15cm tickets to new 29.5cm tickets, under changes initiated by the Ministry of Transport.