Chris Morris

Delays in making a decision on a new kerbside collection system for Dunedin could see ratepayers paying more to continue with the city's existing service as a stop-gap measure.

The head of Blackhead Quarries says a decision to extend operations at Dunedin's Signal Hill has secured the company's future.

A group representing Otago Peninsula artists says the decision to move the Dunedin Community Gallery had "destroyed" their trust in the Dunedin City Council.

The Dunedin Ratepayers and Householders Association has a flash new website, but a membership that has dwindled to just a pair of ageing men.

The Dunedin home at the centre of a lead contamination scare has a cocktail of other chemicals in its soil, but the Otago Regional Council has warned against reading too much into the results.

Is it a work of art, a lovers' tiff, a protest, or just a private joke?

Dunedin city councillors have been urged not to tamper with the city's kerbside collection system.

Steady drizzle dampened the sausages but not the spirits of about 50 people who attended the Dunedin Campaign for a Living Wage launch in the Octagon yesterday.

Otago's old and unwanted computers - donated for recycling by environmentally conscious owners - are languishing in containers in Auckland amid claims eDay recycling shipments have been mixed with hazardous waste.

The Dunedin City Council manager co-ordinating plans for the redevelopment of the city's town hall has resigned.

Members of a North Dunedin family are horrified to have realised they are living on land contaminated by lead - in a home owned by the Otago Regional Council, which knew about the heavy metal presence.

Someone has claimed responsibility for Dunedin's guerrilla art installations - although the exact meaning remains a mystery.

The Dunedin City Council is to support a new global day of action on climate change, after one city councillor questioned its credentials.

A young woman who called for help after hearing noises in her family home in Waverley, Dunedin, yesterday afternoon was found by her mother, bashed unconscious, minutes later, police say.

Staff facing the threat of redundancy at Dunedin's School of Art are expected to know their fate by the end of the week.

The beaches of Dunedin are again under threat, this time from a flood of contaminants streaming off the hills.