Mayoral profile: Andrew Whiley
Dunedin's business story needs to be heard
What do you know about the 11 candidates who are contesting the 2016 mayoral election? David Loughrey puts the questions to Cr Andrew Whiley.
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Hopes held plan will be allowed
Hopes held plan will be allowed
A Dunedin property developer hopes his plans to allow a young couple to build on an under-size block on Dalziel Rd may come to fruition, despite a planner's recommendation to decline consent.
Mayoral profile: Lee Vandervis
No more flooded homes and a rates freeze
What do you know about the 11 candidates who are contesting the 2016 mayoral election? David Loughrey puts the questions to Cr Lee Vandervis.
Lawyer rescues mansion
Lawyer steps in to rescue mansion from demolition
Another piece of Dunedin’s heritage has been saved from demolition and is set to be restored to its former glory above Speight’s Brewery.
Candidates: brevity is the new black
Candidates: brevity is the new black
It is a healthy democracy in which audiences pack candidate meetings to hear what the latest batch of aspiring city leaders have to say. But David Loughrey discovered this week those who turn up...
Full house for second Dunedin mayoral forum
Full house for second Dunedin mayoral forum
The hall was jam-packed and the questions were pointed at the second Dunedin mayoral forum.
Mayoral Profile: Jim O'Malley
Mayoral Profile: Jim O'Malley
What do you know about the 11 Dunedin candidates contesting the 2016 mayoral election? David Loughrey puts the questions to Jim O’Malley.
Subdued response to first candidates' forum
Subdued response to first candidates' forum
Dunedin's mayoral candidates made a sometimes nervous start as they got their campaigns under way at the first forum of the 2016 election last night.
TV review: Mosley strikes again
TV review: Mosley strikes again
Michael Mosley has brought to television some of the finest programmes about science known to mankind.
Signage skulduggery season
Signage skulduggery season
Otago has entered the election season, a period during which fever spreads faster than the madness of spring. David Loughrey relates the strange behaviours that result.
Mayoral profile: Dave Cull
Friction, flak and fixing the problems
What do you know about the 11 Dunedin candidates who are contesting the 2016 mayoral election? David Loughrey puts the questions to Mayor Dave Cull.
Mayoral profile: Athol Bayne
More business growth to end unemployment
What do you know about the 11 Dunedin candidates who are contesting the 2016 mayoral election? David Loughrey puts the questions to Athol Bayne.
What drives youngest candidate's mayoral bid?
Mayoral Profile: Scout Barbour-Evans
What do you know about the 11 candidates who are contesting the 2016 mayoral election? We put the questions to Scout Barbour-Evans.
City host to reptile conference
City host to reptile conference
One of the larger conferences to come to Dunedin, a six-day international event that will attract up to 1000 delegates to the city, is the latest in a series bringing considerable economic...
Poetry pay-and-display tickets launched
Poetry pay-and-display tickets launched
Dunedin's literary credentials have taken a step up, with the simple task of paying for parking in the city now a poetic event.
High-tech offices in heritage building
High-tech shared offices in 150-year-old city building
A Dunedin couple redeveloping a heritage building in Stafford St say their model of a high-tech shared office space will give it a new lease of life.
Blame traded over helicopter crash
Blame traded over helicopter crash
The families of two men killed in a helicopter crash, and the company that owned the aircraft, are laying the blame firmly on the Robinson helicopter being used.
Plan to use special licence
Plan to use special licence
Sammy's nightclub owner Sam Chin may have lost his liquor licence, but he says that does not mean the venue will close.
Families say chopper to blame for crash
Families say chopper to blame for crash
An investigation into a helicopter crash that killed two men near Queenstown last year says it was one of many incidents involving the type of Robinson helicopter they were flying.
Half a missing bookcase comes home
Half a missing bookcase comes home
The owners of Larnach Castle are hoping the discovery of half a bookcase in Christchurch may lead them to the other half of what is a piece of the castle's original furniture.