Three branches of the Fletcher Building group will come together when 30 staff relocate to a new business ''hub'' at the former Carisbrook site in South Dunedin.
A push to buy land and reopen the Chain Hills tunnel has received a boost from three private benefactors, who have each pledged $50,000 loans for the project.
The Dunedin City Council will lobby the Government — and could also mobilise the public — as it pushes for a commitment to a central site for the city’s long-awaited hospital rebuild.
The Dunedin City Council will decide today whether to dip into cash from a building maintenance fund to pay for environmental and food resilience initiatives.
Manufacturing still has a future in Dunedin, despite the corporate "greed'' behind plans to close the Cadbury chocolate factory, Labour leader Andrew Little says.
Cadbury's closure will ripple through the Dunedin economy, costing support companies their contracts and possibly even their staff, the Otago Chamber of Commerce says.
Lee Vandervis says there is ''no reason'' for DCC staff to claim the city's infrastructure coped well with Monday's storm, given the number of shops and basements that were flooded.