David Loughrey

New plans for proposed student apartments in North Dunedin appear to have smoothed the path for their developer.

The owners of John Wickliffe House say no final decision has been made on colours for a proposed paint job for the building.

The Dunedin City Council has done a U-turn on its plan to sell a South Dunedin car park, and promised to do better next time, after community outrage forced a rethink.

Opposition to the Dunedin City Council's sale of millions of dollars' worth of surplus land is growing, with the second recent sale to emerge infuriating a nearby community theatre.

Some Dunedin city councillors are urging a rethink on the sale of a council-owned car park near the Mayfair Theatre, but Mayor Dave Cull is adamant the sale should not be a political decision.

The Dunedin City Council has backed away from taking over the city's public transport network next year, amid concerns over what it describes as ''substantial risks'' from planned bus system changes.

A collaboration between the New Zealand Transport Agency and southern organisations is aimed at reducing the high rate of death and injury road crashes in the South caused by overseas drivers.

A group of Dunedin businesses is the latest to take a stand against cycleways in the city, getting together to oppose a route through the harbourside industrial area.

A $10 million expansion at Cerebos Gregg's Dunedin plant will add 17 new jobs to the city.

Air New Zealand has returned a direct morning flight from Auckland to Dunedin to its schedule, a small piece of good news for the city's air services and business community.

A Dunedin man has called for the city to ditch major airlines, ''do the job ourselves'' and begin a local air service providing international flights.

It may have been 30 years in the offing, but Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan says the Balclutha streetscape upgrade is now in its final consultation phase.

Farmer and cafe owner Fred Doherty dared to dream - but yesterday Otago Air began inching towards reality.

The Dunedin City Council and the Otago Regional Council should get together to underwrite air services to Dunedin, an aviation expert says.

The man operating the Dunedin night bus service says he has bookings for this weekend, and will be back doing what he points out it has been his legal right since July last year.

Housing New Zealand says it will apologise personally to a family that lost its hot water for most of last week after a litany of errors by bungling staff.

Dunedin businesses are suffering from what they say is a poor domestic air service that is not helping economic development.

A former rental car company manager backing a petition to introduce testing for overseas drivers says the worst case he had seen was a driver who signed a contract, got in a car and drove it straight into another car in the company's car park.