Dunedin's Waipori fund ended the first six months of the financial year with a surplus of $5.2 million, a result chairman Ross Liddell described as "pleasing".
The Forsyth Barr Stadium swallowed another $1.8 million yesterday, and the Carisbrook Stadium Trust and its consultants were labelled "either misleading or incompetent" for budgeting far less than that for the company set up to run it.
Dunedin ratepayers look set to pay an extra 7.3% in rates for the next financial year, along with increased fees and charges for activities ranging from building a house to burying the dead.
Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran wants debate to start on whether the time has come to sever constitutional ties with Great Britain, and for planning to begin for New Zealand to become a republic.
A Dunedin funeral director is planning to install a new cremator at its site near a food outlet, supermarket and homes, in a move that could halve the number of cremations at the Dunedin City Council's Andersons Bay facility.
Dunedin residents making noise complaints are expected to benefit from new technology following a new company taking up the Dunedin City Council's noise control tender.
Residents living near Hope and Sons' Dunedin funeral home have begun to rally against a proposed new cremator, saying they are not happy with the idea of such a facility close to a residential area.
Dunedin's public libraries emerged unscathed from proposed budget cuts yesterday, as the issue became a political rallying point in front of a packed public gallery.
Staff at the already stretched Dunedin Public Libraries will face job losses and the library could suffer cuts to its book budgets if a proposed $300,000 budget cut goes ahead.
Developers planning a 118-lot residential development at Mosgiel, with 37 properties smaller than allowed in Dunedin's district plan, are awaiting a final decision on the project's future, following a Dunedin City Council resource consent hearing yesterday.
Dunedin City Council staff have come up with a new proposal for rent increases for council flats, with the rise depending on the size of the unit.
Dunedin's 996 council flats are about to have a five-year, $5 million upgrade, as the city re-routes some of its social housing budget away from building new units to upgrading what it has.
The Dunedin City Council's controversial parking changes come back before a hearings committee today, as a special consultative procedure to create "authorised vehicle" parking bays for goods and service vehicles, residents' parking and other special parking areas is considered.
Tenants of council flats that have already been retro-fitted with insulation say the work adds to what are already well maintained units.
The Carisbrook Stadium Trust has been granted consent to clean up contaminated land at the Forsyth Barr Stadium site, despite evidence some land could have been used for asbestos manufacture and disposal.
Dunedin city councillor Teresa Stevenson was left out on a political limb yesterday, finding little support among her peers for a low profile appointment to a policy steering group.
Backers of a plan to close the lower Octagon to traffic during summer weekends were challenged yesterday to come up with a more compelling reason to do so, as the Dunedin City Council voted nine to four against the idea.
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Core services at the Otago Museum will suffer if proposed cuts to funding go ahead, the organisation says.
A plan for a 118-lot residential development in Mosgiel with 44 properties smaller than allowed in Dunedin's district plan would create "an undesirable precedent", a Dunedin City Council planner says.
