Chris Morris

Plans for the plaza beside the Forsyth Barr Stadium are being scaled up, after the University of Otago decided it wanted the area to "make a statement".

The chairman of the Dunedin City Council's finance and strategy committee has again raised the prospect of cashing in the $71.2 million Waipori fund.

A family promise made to a dying mother more than 50 years ago was fulfilled for the last time in Dunedin yesterday.

Noah Scott (7) is already setting his cricketing goals.

He didn't wear a costume, but David Davies says he liked what he saw at the Wellington Sevens rugby tournament.

Work to restore the deteriorating 100m-long section of sea wall near Kitchener St, in Dunedin's harbour basin. began last week.

Three of the most expensive capital projects planned by the Dunedin City Council, together costing tens of millions of dollars, could be temporarily shelved in an effort to ease the burden on ratepayers.

Dunedin's parking wardens don't do quotas and don't receive iPods for their efforts - but new figures suggest they don't need them either.

Dunedin city councillors have trimmed 2.1% from forecast rates increases for the next financial year, reducing the expected burden to 5.2%, but must now wait to hear what ratepayers think of their efforts.

Dunedin may be facing a $1 billion bill to maintain existing water services over the next 50 years, but no-one should panic.

The Dunedin City Council is facing a billion-dollar bill to maintain existing water services over the next 50 years.

An exotic vascular disease not seen before in New Zealand, and similar to the catastrophic Dutch elm disease, may be spreading through Dunedin's plane trees.

Climate change, peak oil and a $1 billion bill are just some of the challenges identified in the Dunedin City Council's 3 Waters strategy document.

Government biosecurity staff based in Auckland are rushing to Dunedin to inspect the Octagon's ailing plane trees.

A mysterious disease may be killing trees in Dunedin's Octagon.

The Dunedin City Council is to consult its lawyers over the continued closure to motorists of John Wilson Ocean Dr after concerns were raised in a letter to yesterday's community development committee meeting.