Dunedin city councillor Michael Guest this week approved the progression of plans for closed-circuit television cameras for the city, as long as a detailed document setting out protocols for their use was available before they were put in place.
Carisbrook Stadium Trust chairman Malcolm Farry has made another call for stadium supporters to buy seating packages if they want the stadium to go ahead, as the deadline for the trust to raise private sector funding closes in.
A Dunedin city councillor has called for closed-circuit television camera coverage of the Octagon to be delayed until the security of the images is fully debated.
A strategy being developed for Dunedin's council housing includes a range of possibilities from selling and leaving it in the hands of "market forces" to making the council the sole provider of social housing, taking over the role of the State.
She has been quietly ushering pedestrians across High St to Manse St for nigh on two years, but the questionable gender of one of Dunedin's pedestrian signals has finally come to light.
The pre-Christmas season appears to be doubling as puppy-napping season, but the second incident of canine criminality - like the first - has had a happy ending.
A petition signed by 260 people and trenchant opposition from the New Zealand Historic Places Trust has met a proposal to demolish a row of four protected buildings in Princes St, Dunedin, and another in Stafford St.
The Carisbrook Stadium Trust is heading to Invercargill on Monday in its quest to provide information on the project, and sell its seating packages.
From bagpipes to marching bands, from Jesus to gymnasts, the 11th annual Dunedin Santa Parade had all bases covered as it again attracted tens of thousands of people to George St yesterday.
The Otago Stadium Trust has been left reeling after a week of bad news, but some of the most damaging issues were not discussed at Dunedin City Council committee meeting yesterday.
A cash-strapped Otago Rugby Football Union wants to make money from selling Carisbrook to the trust developing the Otago Stadium, despite the possibility of it benefiting from a new, and largely ratepayer-funded facility.
Early results of a survey gauging support for public funding of the Otago Stadium indicate a major shift in public sentiment away from the project.
Internal ructions within the Stop the Stadium group have resulted in four of its 10 committee members being asked to leave, including vice-president Peter Entwisle.
Dunedin stadium proponents are urging the 1600 people and businesses that registered an interest in buying seats, lounge memberships and corporate boxes at the Otago Stadium to start signing contracts, amid concern about slow sales.
Dunedin City Council chief executive Jim Harland will be paid $335,000 this financial year, about a 10% increase on the $287,000 salary and $15,000 bonus he received last year.
Nine gruelling days devoted to Dunedin's number one topic of debate, the Otago Stadium, concluded yesterday.
Defense of Carisbrook Stadium Trust chairman Malcolm Farry, memories of the Aramoana aluminium smelter and concerns about the design of an elevated traffic roundabout were highlights of the stadium plan change hearing yesterday.
Climate change, sea level rise and peak oil began the stadium plan change hearing in Dunedin yesterday, and a multinational oil company brought it to a close.
From business closures to international terrorism and student riots caused by rain, yesterday's stadium and arterial route plan-change hearing in Dunedin heard an unusually wide range of arguments in opposition to the projects.
Stop the Stadium will present its evidence at the stadium and harbour arterial plan change hearings on Monday without backing from legal or planning specialists, an issue that has resulted in two resignations from the group's committee.
