Plans for a multimillion-dollar Green Island retail development should be rejected to help protect Dunedin's main street experience from a "death by a thousand cuts", a Dunedin City Council planner says.
The Dunedin City Council and nine other local authorities are joining forces to promote solar energy and help communities combat the rising cost of energy.
An army of robots invaded Dunedin over the weekend, but enslavement of the human race was terminated in favour of some dancing, football and following a wandering black line.
Protesters gathering in Dunedin's Octagon have sent a strong message to KiwiRail and the Govnerment to save jobs at Hillside Engineering.
The din is nearly deafening as Dunedin's new recycling plant roars at its task.
More than $1 billion in underground infrastructure across Dunedin is without insurance against natural disasters, after international reinsurers baulked at the risk after the Christchurch earthquakes.
Dunedin's inability to secure insurance for $1 billion worth of underground infrastructure is a "good reason" to join the local government collective insurance scheme, the Local Government New Zealand chief executive says.
The Dunedin City Council's new chief executive will be a Welshman, it has been announced this morning.
A new multimillion-dollar aquatic centre in Mosgiel - servicing Dunedin's entire southern catchment - is emerging as a preferred option from a review of Dunedin's swimming pool needs.
The Dunedin City Council is buying a privately run car park offering cheaper fees and increasing them to match its own, but a council manager denies the action is monopolistic.
Two men, two wheelchairs - and two very different views of the future of John Wilson Ocean Dr, at St Kilda, in Dunedin.
The Dunedin City Council has a new chief executive - and he already has an eye on the Forsyth Barr Stadium and the need to cut council costs and mounting debt levels.
The long-running debate over Dunedin's John Wilson Ocean Dr continues, with plans that would have kept the road closed to vehicles to be reconsidered yet again - among other options.
According to Dave Henry, Dunedin's best street is McIntosh Rd, and the worst is Ruru Ave. He should know: he has walked all of them 10 times.
A climate change study to be undertaken by the Dunedin City Council is to be carried out over three years after all, after a last-minute compromise that will save $170,000.
The New Zealand Automobile Association's Otago district council is again calling for a compromise on John Wilson Ocean Dr, before a crucial meeting today that could decide the road's future use.
Heavy logging trucks using a narrow and winding back road to Port Chalmers are putting the safety of other motorists at risk, the Chalmers Community Board claims.
Debate over the future of Dunedin's scenic John Wilson Ocean Dr is not over yet.
Incidents are being missed and evidence lost because of technical problems with Dunedin's ratepayer-funded CCTV system.
Better designs making the best use of the sun - rather than a blanket ban on south-facing homes - are needed to make Dunedin's chilly housing stock more ecologically friendly, an award-winning Dunedin architect says.
