David Loughrey

A small club with ambitions to be tiny took its miniature renditions of everyday objects to a larger audience on the weekend.

Ryman Healthcare is back with a new proposal for a rest-home on its Highgate site, a plan the company says has decreased the "visual bulk" that saw the last design turned down both by a resource consent committee, and the Environment Court.

The Chamber of Commerce has reported a "positive" meeting with the Dunedin City Council to discuss the council's response to last month's snowfall

Otago businesses and industry groups have access to funding of more than $1 million this financial year, and those with their fingers on the purse strings are keen to give it away.

Both the Dunedin police and the Otago University Students Association (OUSA) took flak yesterday as city councillors again put in place a temporary liquor ban to help control a planned Undie 500 rally.

The Dunedin City Council looks set to put aspects of its parking strategy in reverse, promising to reconsider the four-hour maximum parking time, parking for couriers, outside post office boxes and even at the Speight's spring water tap.

Sand dunes surrounding Dunedin's beaches are not a playground for four-wheel-drive vehicles, a Dunedin city councillor says, but areas with important ecological values that need to be looked after.

People wanting to fill bottles with spring water from the Speight's building in Rattray St are among residents caught out by Dunedin's new parking regime.

A spate of vermin infestations in Dunedin food outlets, including the discovery of a carcass, and droppings on food, is "all avoidable", the Dunedin City Council says.

Queenstown man Basil Walker is "not off the hook" for the $12,890 he owes the Otago Regional Council, despite being an undischarged bankrupt.

Using private companies to run Dunedin's water and wastewater assets is one option to be considered by the Dunedin City Council, but a councillor involved says the idea is "unlikely to gain traction".

Queenstown man Basil Walker's decision to appeal his unsuccessful challenge to the Otago Regional Council's stadium funding has shocked chairman Stephen Cairns, who said the council was already "having difficulty" getting money from the undischarged bankrupt for costs from the last hearing.

The Dunedin Botanic Garden looks set for a major expansion, after an announcement yesterday consent had been granted for the long-debated realignment of Lovelock Ave.

Dunedin city councillor Paul Hudson abstained from Monday's vote on the $45 million revamp of the Dunedin Town Hall and Dunedin Centre because of his daughter's previous involvement with a restaurant there.