A long-running dispute between the Dunedin City Council and the city's building industry has resulted in changes to the way the council charges consent fees, changes expected to lower the cost to the industry.
Old Age Mums is a television programme that delves into the ethically and morally grey area of women having children well past their menopause.
Work to bring ultrafast broadband (UFB) to Dunedin is about to begin, at the same time as the city's new "digital office" gets ready to open for business.
The Dunedin City Council will consider borrowing from its own almost $70 million Waipori fund, instead of using commercial lending institutions.
The revelation last week the Dunedin City Council's stadium debt is being paid off over a 40-year, rather than a 20-year, period has surprised some councillors.
The reality of the council's financial situation, rather than a decision by either the council or council staff, was behind the repayment period for stadium debt extending from 20 to 40 years, council finance and corporate support general manager Athol Stephens says.
Dunedin ratepayers will be consulted this year on a rates increase of 5%, after three days and 25 minutes of councillors debating what should stay, and what should go, from the city's budget during the Dunedin City Council pre-draft budget and long-term plan meetings.
The number of cuts being made by the Dunedin City Council to projects across the city will have far-reaching effects.
Multimillion-dollar spending cuts to stem runaway rates increases could result in the end of new road sealing, and the end of plans to upgrade the city's sports fields for at least the next decade.
Somewhere north of here, nice young people with names like Tom and Christabel sit in offices and put together little courier bags full of DVDs and other goodies to send to me.
Dunedin City Council's community housing rents will rise by about 3% in the next financial year.
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has called for a report to clarify exactly what the Otago SPCA will do with any funding it gets from the city council, now it will no longer house stray dogs or deal with feral cats.
The Dunedin City Council needs to be upfront with Mosgiel residents, and tell them their new swimming pool is not the "first cab off the rank", Cr John Bezett told this week's pre-draft budget meetings.
A 10% rise in the cost of dying would cost the deceased, but have lesser effect on living ratepayers, the Dunedin City Council heard yesterday.
The Dunedin City Council gave approval for a second "targeted rate" system to improve city buildings yesterday when it voted for a scheme to help fund earthquake-strengthening for heritage building owners.
An artificial turf, seen by Dunedin City Council staff as the future of sports fields in Dunedin, stayed in the city's annual plan by a single vote yesterday.
A project to help homeowners insulate and install "clean" heating systems was included in Dunedin's annual plan yesterday, and described as "a great initiative" by Mayor Dave Cull, after an almost unanimous vote.
Mr Bates, you are the finest of fellows. You ignore that which is good for you, and think only of that which is good for others.
The Bourke family's Harwood property is not a holiday home, nor is it a bach - it is a crib. David Loughrey finds it lives up to that name to the point it could almost be used as a definition of the Southern family getaway.
Dunedin city councillors will enter a political minefield this week as they meet to deal with not only the city's budget, but what is now the 40-year period it will take to pay Forsyth Barr Stadium debt.
