A hard-hitting review of the Dunedin City Council's trading companies has identified a "high level of dysfunction" in the organisation, and financial problems with the potential to become "very serious", if they have not already reached that stage.
Dunedin Venues Management LTD (DVML) chief executive, David Davies, yesterday said he was "disappointed" he had not heard from concert promoters before this week about the collapse of negotiations to bring Rod Stewart to Dunedin.
Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium was officially opened, blessed and made ready for business early yesterday, just two years after piles for the building were driven into the ground beside the Otago harbour.
A heated political storm has started after an announcement Dunedin City Council companies will not be able to come up with $8 million of dividends to help pay for multimillion-dollar spending.
A longtime opponent of Dunedin City Council spending policies says he is feeling vindicated by what he says is evidence of poor financial decisions by the organisation.
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has said the city can cope with the $8 million shortfall identified last week, even though some services and expenditure might "get the chop".
There are many possible ways to spend one's time during the impending Rugby World Cup.
A 10-year-old boy completed a remarkable 21km trek to safety yesterday, after getting separated from family members during a pig-hunting expedition in Southland.
Property developers' arguments against increased Dunedin City Council charges will not be heard until November.
Work being done at the Saddle Hill quarry was authorised under an agreement between the quarry and the Dunedin City Council, Cr Colin Weatherall said.
Invercargill hotelier Geoff Thomson, the owner of the former chief post office building in Dunedin, has added the Century City Hotel in Wellington to his stable.
More people will be brought in this Saturday for traffic management duties at the Forsyth Barr Stadium, as organisers continue to tweak systems to make the facility work smoothly.
There is, in episode one of Torchwood: Miracle Day, a rather unpleasant scene.
The Dunedin public has its first view of the Forsyth Barr Stadium plaza just weeks before it is due to be finished.
A resource consent will be required before the protected facade of a South Dunedin building can be demolished.
Project Gateway - an initiative that has cost the Dunedin City Council $3.5 million over the last decade - will be put on hold and "reviewed" after results that have fallen well short of initial goals.
Dunedin drivers with cars left awkwardly and sometimes illegally parked across the city after heavy snowfall were given a day's grace yesterday, with no parking enforcement by the Dunedin City Council.
Prime Minister John Key, facing "nanny state" criticism over the Government's new $25 million welfare policy for young people, says he is not going to apologise to anyone for intervening in their lives.
Dunedin property developers are set to square off with the Dunedin City Council from today, as they attempt to have a new charge on development overthrown.
Dunedin city councillors need to be "encouraged" to put more effort into keeping up with the financial details of the city's companies, a report to the council on Dunedin City Holdings Ltd says.
