Chris Morris

The Otago Settlers Museum will be closed to the public for up to 18 months, following a decision by the Dunedin City Council.

A suburban crackdown by Dunedin City Council parking wardens helped rake in more than $2.5 million in parking fines last year.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has paid a bill for years of free water at his Otago Peninsula home.

A Dunedin bar owner has renewed calls for large marquees to be allowed in the Octagon during this year's Rugby World Cup, after news the city will host an extra match.

The Southern Scenic Route linking Dunedin with attractions including the Catlins and Queenstown could be extended in time for an influx of Rugby World Cup tourists.

Disoriented tourists driving to Aramoana - mistakenly believing they were on a back road heading north out of Dunedin - would benefit from a proposal to extend the Southern Scenic Route, the Chalmers Community Board says.

Grinning Labour leader Phil Goff, surrounded by nodding MPs in Dunedin yesterday, insisted his leadership remained secure despite questions over his handling of the Darren Hughes controversy.

Calls for more city councillors to be included in a new group to liaise with the Dunedin City Council's council-controlled organisations (CCOs) has been rejected, prompting criticism from some councillors.

Lyndall Hancock has spent a lifetime with a rainwater tank beside the house.

Those elected for Dunedin City Council will have a say in who becomes the organisation's next chief executive, despite concerns the process could become a political football.

A mountain of rubbish at Dunedin's Green Island landfill risks becoming "the seventh eyesore of the city" as work at the site enters a new phase, a Dunedin city councillor says.

Nearly 50 candidates - some from as far away as the United Kingdom - have applied to be the Dunedin City Council's next chief executive.

Never before have Paul and Valerie Dyer had such good access to the levers of power in Dunedin.

Crabs, molluscs and invertebrates will soon be forced to give way to cyclists in a sheltered bay at Vauxhall on Otago Peninsula.

A Dunedin man is dead and another injured after the motorcycle they were on collided with an oncoming flat-deck utility at Waitati yesterday.

Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer Dimitri Kleioris instructs Nathan Harrison (9) on some of the finer points of ballet during a junior dancers' masterclass at the Bennett School of Ballet and Jazz in Dunedin yesterday.

The Dunedin City Council is cautious about working with a new local government funding agency being established by the Government, fearing it could find itself saddled with other councils' debts.

Construction of the next stages in the Otago Peninsula cycleway is under way, but at least one frustrated motorist is calling for the work to be accelerated or halted completely.