David Loughrey

The DCC has voted against a proposed bylaw banning campers in vehicles without toilets, despite most public submissions supporting the move.

A Dunedin bar owner has slammed as ''pie in the sky'' a police argument for a 3am ''one-way door'' policy being imposed on his business.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says a fuel tax such as that proposed for Auckland may be something that could raise money for infrastructure in Dunedin, but other mayors in the region don't support the idea.

The Dunedin City Council is expected next week to rubber-stamp a new public art framework planned to re-establish its moribund public art programme.

A retrospective of Ida Valley one-word poet Jim Fletcher's life and seminal work was published recently in the ODT. Now there are calls to develop a fellowship devoted to the art form. David Loughrey reports.

A helicopter has been called in to help firefighters battle a blaze across the Shotover River from Tucker Beach, near Queenstown.