Chris Morris

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull was among dignitaries from around the world watching as Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a major international expo in Shanghai yesterday.

A government plan for a new national infrastructure agency could help Dunedin tackle a $80 million backlog in water infrastructure investment and prepare for climate change.

A Wellington priest has backed down and agreed to allow ribbons from the survivors of sexual abuse to adorn a church in the capital.

Calls to change the name of Dunedin's Kavanagh College have prompted a counter-petition to keep it.

A long-serving Dunedin barrister and Catholic education figure has added his voice to calls for Kavanagh College to be renamed.

Dunedin City Library's ageing roof is getting a $1.5million spruce-up.

Priests from across Otago and Southland gathered in Dunedin yesterday as part of a push to upskill clergy in response to a sexual abuse crisis engulfing the Catholic Church.

Former pupils are "pretty disappointed" by a delay to any decision on the renaming of Kavanagh College.

Dunedin commuters have been warned to expect the hunt for free, all-day parking to become increasingly difficult in the city centre.

Dunedin's waterfront development plan faces commercial ''viability challenges'', but changes to reduce costs will not stop the transformation of the area, the Dunedin City Council says.

About 150 previously free car parking spaces could become paid ones - but with existing time restrictions axed - as part of a Dunedin parking shake-up.

An open letter calling for Dunedin's Kavanagh College to be renamed is to be presented to representatives of the school board today.

A proposal to accelerate nearly $20 million in Dunedin City Council capital spending is "positive" progress towards ending an investment backlog within the organisation, Mayor Dave Cull says.

An Australian public relations company has been appointed to help lift the profile of Dunedin as a destination across the Tasman.

An Australian public relations company has been appointed to help lift the profile of Dunedin as a destination across the Tasman.

A new alcohol policy for Dunedin has been signed off in Wellington, days after the process was labelled a "farce" by Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says alternative ways to fund community infrastructure are needed after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took regional fuel taxes off the table.

Dunedin is riding a wave as the city's population surges past 130,000 for the first time, new figures show.