Chris Morris

The Dunedin City Council, and ultimately the city's ratepayers, are now the security for about $150 million in loans needed to pay for the Forsyth Barr Stadium.

Dunedin streets turned white as an army of English fans marched on Otago Stadium yesterday.

The Dunedin City Council's new chief executive is yet to get his feet under the desk, but is already aiming high.

First they fell in love with rugby, then they fell in love with each other.

A beefed-up free wireless internet (Wi-Fi) network is to become a permanent fixture in Dunedin's Octagon.

The Otago Museum has won a reprieve from a looming deadline by which it was supposed to refurbish and reopen the 133-year-old former post office building next door.

The Dunedin City Council has spent $60,000 on a business and life coach to address staff issues, but a senior manager denies workplace bullying is a "significant" issue within the organisation.

Dunedin city councillor awarded the entertainment contract for Dunedin's town hall fan zone has again been forced to defend his dual role.

A row is escalating between two Dunedin city councillors over the controversial Haka Peep Show art work in the Octagon, as tit-for-tat complaints of broken council rules begin to mount.

The historic pedestrian causeway unearthed during construction of Dunedin's Wall Street mall needs almost another year of treatment before it is safely preserved.

Pedestrians will not be dancing across Dunedin's intersections anytime soon, after Dunedin City Council staff baulked at the cost.

A funding shortfall has cost the jobs of seven disabled Cargill Enterprises workers providing labour at Dunedin's Green Island recycling plant, leaving board chairman Chris Staynes "disappointed".

Claims of dodgy loans, financial errors and conflicts of interest within Dunedin City Holdings Ltd have been rejected by the Office of the Auditor-general (OAG).

A petition signed by more than 1000 people backed fresh calls for John Wilson Ocean Dr to be reopened to vehicles.

There was spontaneous applause as Dunedin city councillors voted to continue work on the planned redevelopment of Logan Park yesterday, despite more cost-cutting and calls to go even further.

England's rugby stars were full of praise for Dunedin's Rugby World Cup welcome yesterday, but less sure how their controversial black jersey will be received in New Zealand.

Plans for a new artificial turf for Dunedin football - to be part-funded by the world football body, Fifa - could be shelved as part of efforts to cut spending on the $14.6 million Logan Park redevelopment.