Dunedin city councillors Fliss Butcher and Jinty MacTavish have joined a working party that will find "opportunities and mechanisms" for Ngai Tahu to contribute to the city's decision making.
I don't know much about food, but I know what I dislike about the tyranny of good taste.
The creator of the phallic work of art causing ongoing controversy in Dunedin says she is disappointed the "humour aspect" of the story is being picked up overseas.
Otago rugby league fans should find out in two weeks whether one of the sport's major annual international games will be held at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
A drawn-out dispute over the future of a group of historic Princes St, Dunedin buildings looks set to be prolonged until next year.
The strategy to spruce up the long-neglected South Dunedin retail area is about to move up a gear, with plans for more improvements in King Edward St to go before the Dunedin City Council next month.
A skateboard bylaw that bans a "low carbon" form of transport on city footpaths should be reconsidered, Dunedin city councillor Jinty MacTavish believes.
Dunedin heritage building owners may next year get financial help with earthquake strengthening, both through an increase in the council's heritage fund, and a targeted rate system.
Dunedin's Waipori Fund has decreased in value, despite recently recording its best return in five years, and the fund's directors want the matter made clear.
I know my audience.
Dunedin city councillors yesterday baulked at the idea of doubling the period of stadium loans to 40 years, as the council scrambled to deal with the fall-out from a $3 million annual stadium debt repayment shortfall.
A Dunedin City Council move to reduce building consent fees - fees that are significantly higher than other areas - is a good first step, the Master Builders Federation says.
A new set of Dunedin traffic lights, yet to blink into action due to a High Court injunction, will remain constrained from directing traffic as negotiations on the issue continue.
An artwork in Dunedin's Octagon that raises controversial issues of the "commodification of Maori and indigenous sportsmen" in the middle of the Rugby World Cup has made Mayor Dave Cull "pretty proud".
The importance some Dunedin drivers place in saving $2 has been made abundantly clear, following the turnaround in the fortunes of a city car park.
Cuts to Government funding may mean the end of Dunedin's city safety officers, after the city council signalled it has no interest in picking up the tab for what it called "police work".
I had stolen from my person a tube of particularly good, inordinately expensive, and, I'm pretty sure, environmentally sustainable shaving cream, at the Melbourne airport recently.
Dunedin's $3 million annual Forsyth Barr Stadium debt repayment shortfall could cost the city an extra $115 million in interest, if the period taken to pay off loans is doubled from 20 to 40 years.
The committee deciding on a public art project to follow Regan Gentry's Harbour Mouth Molars on Portsmouth Dr has gone back to the drawing board, after two projects under consideration did not come to fruition.
White-coated Rotarians, a familiar sight at Carisbrook rugby matches, will make way for surf life-saving volunteers in security uniforms for events at Forsyth Barr Stadium, leaving Rotary facing a $15,000 loss of revenue annually.
