David Loughrey

A plan for a wind farm near Blueskin Bay in Dunedin is set to head to the Environment Court, after its backers appealed a decision to decline resource consent.

A tour of Europe by a formerly Dunedin-based rap musician has shown her the importance of a polished performance and given her some musical direction.

The Dunedin planner who has been a key figure behind the city's heritage building resurgence is ending his stint in the South, taking a parting shot at "knockers'' who he says are the city's worst enemies.

The world in 2016 is the sort of place you wouldn't take your mother, a planet riddled with violence and with idiots clearly in the ascendant. But David Loughrey knows of an excellent little city that might have a lot to teach a wretched Earth.

The catamaran that will be at the centre of a revitalised Natures Wonders tourism operation arrived in Dunedin at 2.30am yesterday.

There was a terrible old joke doing the rounds of Andersons Bay Primary School in the 1960s.

Local Government Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga has staked his job on consultation taking place before any changes that would require councils to amalgamate.

A long-time Taieri resident says the removal of walls around grave plots at the West Taieri Cemetery in the 1970s might be behind recent damage.

National's Minister for Women and Associate Minister for Local Government says it is time for the gender balance of New Zealand's councils to reflect the wider society.

The future of Dunedin nightclub Sammy's looks bleak after a damning report from liquor licensing and Southern District Health Board representatives.

A plan to build on a street that was among the worst hit by flooding in South Dunedin last year could show there was "life after death'' in the embattled suburb.

The Anglican Church in Dunedin is asking its parishioners to donate the cost of a cup of coffee each week towards retaining a bishop in the city.

Waking in the middle of the night trying to remember the name of a horse that fell into a crevasse in the Ross Sea area during an Antarctic expedition was one side effect of David Barnes' preparation for Sunday's Mastermind New Zealand.

A man who opposed a wind farm near Dunedin that would have been less than 500m from his home has called on the Dunedin City Council to tighten its planning rules concerning wind farms.

Dunedin city councillor Hilary Calvert announced yesterday she will not stand in this year's elections, but not before taking parting shots at some of her colleagues and Mayor Dave Cull.

A group of Dalziel Rd residents has made one final push to avert the loss of a bus service on their road, but their call appears unlikely to change the decision.

A flexible theatre space for productions that cannot find room in more established venues may be the latest feature in Dunedin's warehouse precinct.