Dunedin's ballot box was buzzing with late voters ensuring their voice was heard yesterday, as turnout in local government elections soared across New Zealand.
Dunedin city councillor Dave Cull appears to have surged ahead in the mayoral race as the 2010 local government election nears its end.
Everything on television was fine before the introduction of the concept of "reality".
Situated close to the first tee at the Chisholm Park Golf Club, 40 Tahuna Rd is either a golfer's dream, or a possible nightmare for those not keen on an aerial golf ball attack on their roof.
The Dunedin City Council has clarified its calculations of the economic benefit of an international conference announced this week.
One of the Forsyth Barr Stadium seating packages has sold out, pushing the funding raised so far to $35.7 million.
Dunedin council candidate Bev Butler's election recount - if it goes ahead - could cost Dunedin ratepayers up to $70,000.
Dunedin City Council candidate Bev Butler has applied for a full recount of the election results, claiming the close vote, and similarity of names on the poll, as reasons to check almost 34,000 voting papers.
Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium has a date for its first major international conference - the 2013 Global Botanic Gardens Congress.
Nothing disturbs me more than having missed out on something that may have been some sort of 1980s cultural phenomenon.
The controversial project to realign Lovelock Ave, in Dunedin, may be dumped, just days before tender documents are due to be signed.
Ben Smith could not have had a more simple homecoming yesterday.
Plenty of voters in the 2010 elections chose not to make a choice on some, or in some cases any, of the local authorities they were charged with electing.
Criticism pre-election polling could skew results or put people off voting is not supported by academic evidence, a University of Otago political studies department senior lecturer says.
The "efficiencies" Dunedin mayor-elect Dave Cull has targeted as one of the major facets of his plans to lighten the burden on ratepayers may require some unpalatable decisions by the new city council.
An apparently inexorable downward trend in voting returns in Dunedin was reversed in Saturday's local government election, but the increase was not as high as expected last week.
I was thinking only last month and I'm sure I am not the only one to notice that the Government is taking over our lives.
The winds of change could be about to sweep through the offices of the Dunedin City Council, with Mayor-elect Dave Cull convinced the community's demand for change led to his win on Saturday.
The weather was vile and the opposition tenacious, but minor premiers the Hawks took both in their stride to take the honours, winning the Otago Rugby League grand final in Dunedin on Saturday.
Heritage advocates have launched a last-ditch effort to save a group of Princes St, Dunedin, buildings at the centre of a drawn-out dispute.
