Debbie Porteous

Wet weather has turned some Dunedin sports fields into bogs, but any permanent solutions are likely to be years away.

The days of prominent displays of alcohol near the entrance to two major Dunedin supermarkets may be numbered as health and licensing authorities oppose the renewal of their off-licences.

Paths that cross land linking parts of the Dunedin suburb of Corstorphine will be restored after the Dunedin City Council bought the land for $495,000.

The Dunedin physio pool seems set to get a reprieve until June and has a shot at a longer future, with a Dunedin City Council offer of support.

The closure of the physio pool has been delayed until June so a solution can be found for the longer term. That solution will inevitably require some capital investment. But how much are we talking? Debbie Porteous finds out that is the million-dollar question.

The Octagon carriageway in Dunedin will become a straight-through road over the cruise ship season if a shuttle drop-off trial goes ahead.

As the chop looms, plans to remove 12 established poplars in Logan Park Dr have fired up Dunedin residents, some of whom say the decision appears to be out of the blue and even ''horrifying''.

It is a choice between buildings and jobs, a panel considering whether to allow apartments in a heritage building in Dunedin's waterfront industrial area has been told.

Chinese-born street art star DALeast is squeezing Dunedin into a busy international schedule so he can transform a plain Stafford St wall into a work of art.

Two Dunedin landowners are arguing their case to subdivide more of Saddle Hill to the Environment Court this week.

"Knowing all the answers'' was the key to winning the year 9 and 10 Otago Daily Times Extra! current events quiz for two years running, one of the winning team members said last night.

One of the cornerstone pieces of Dunedin's first street art festival has hit a speed hump, but it has not slowed the festival's momentum, organisers say.

Trucks and diggers will roll into the southern part of Vogel St in central Dunedin this month, as the controversial multimillion-dollar South Dunedin cycle network continues to expand.

Twelve trees that threatened the future of international cricket fixtures in Dunedin will be removed next week.

It was ''just so improbable'' that ''all that disfigurement'' of Saddle Hill could have been allowed to go on without a consent being in place, a lawyer for quarry operators on the hill says.

Thie brief moment in time has been immortalised inside plastic inside bespoke seats installed this week in Dunedin's historic warehouse precinct.

The short-term fate of the Dunedin Physio Pool could be known today.

Two large rocks blocking a track to Blueskin Bay since 2008 are to be removed and vehicle access reinstated as soon as possible.

The options for speeding up the widening of the low road around the Otago Peninsula, and how much that could cost ratepayers, will be studied over the next month.