Despite a flood of new details about a proposed 118-lot subdivision in Mosgiel, consent for the project should be declined, Dunedin City Council planner Lianne Darby said yesterday.
There will be no new logo, and no slogan, but the Dunedin City Council hopes its new $500,000-a-year branding campaign will bring benefits to the city.
Opposition to Port Otago's plan to dredge the Otago Harbour channel and dump 7.2 million cu m of sand and silt 6.5km beyond Taiaroa Head is emerging, with a public meeting on Monday to increase public awareness of the issue.
Dunedin voters are urged to enrol to shift the city from its position as the city council area with the second-lowest percentage of enrolled voters.
The stronger teams in the Otago rugby league have started to stamp their mark, with passes sticking as players' skill levels saw the benefit of sustained game time.
Voting patterns at the Dunedin City Council vary, but on most votes relating to the Forsyth Barr Stadium, Crs Fliss Butcher, Kate Wilson, Dave Cull, Teresa Stevenson and Chris Staynes have voted against the project.
More $5-a-day parking in Dunedin, and changes to parking in the St Andrew St and Exchange areas, are the main outcomes of a review of the city's controversial parking strategy.
The car park overflowed and plenty of spectators rolled up as rugby league made an overdue return to Bishopscourt in Dunedin on Saturday.
Strong interest in the seven-week rugby league season that starts today has resulted in a "meaningful" competition for the code in Dunedin, for the first time since 2007.
It may have been the passions involved, or the length of the process, but there were some testy moments at a resource consent hearing yesterday considering the future of a group of Princes St, Dunedin, buildings.
Dunedin City Council chief executive Jim Harland was yesterday given the authority to draw down debt of up to $149 million to pay for the Forsyth Barr Stadium, and rates payments from residents were approved as security for the city's debt.
Dunedin funeral company Hope and Sons' appeal against two councils over its unsuccessful bid for resource consent to build a new cremator will be dealt with as a single matter when it goes before the Environment Court.
The Facebook page dedicated to being completely over the vampire fad only has 146 fans.
The rivers were dirty and the weather was cold, but for Trevor Carr and his grandson Taine Clinch (11) an afternoon of whitebaiting yesterday paid off with enough of the tiny fish for a meal of whitebait patties.
Work to demolish three bays of the former art gallery at Logan Park, in Dunedin, should start within weeks, after the release yesterday of a resource consent decision allowing the work to go ahead.
Full public access to Pilots beach reserve on the Otago Peninsula may have to make way for the protection of the resident blue penguin population.
Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium will require a "seven-figure" funding boost to provide some of the basic requirements for the facility
Dunedin property developer Tim Barnett has won a more than four-year battle with the Dunedin City Council, and is now free to build a planned three-storeyed office and residential building at 41 Wharf St, beside the Steamer Basin at Otago Harbour.
The former president of Stop the Stadium, Bev Butler, believes her public profile over the last three years will help boost her voting tally at this year's election.
There is something about a woman's wrath that makes it well worth staying away from.
