Waitati couple who lived for 25 years without roof insulation in their seaside home are sleeping more warmly after a group aiming to make Dunedin homes more cosy came to their aid.
The word on the street is the people of Mosgiel want a new pool, an informal poll of residents has revealed.
Children and adults alike are drawn to Barry and Jane Sinclair's '72 Dodge Coronet whenever they roll it out.
A former professional cricketer has been tasked with making a success of Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium.
Attempts to help a 4m-long pilot whale which tried to beach itself at Kaka Point last night failed, with the whale eventually left to die on the rocks.
A stadium opponent has questioned a series of historic administration cost payments from the Dunedin City Council to the trust in charge of the Forsyth Barr Stadium's development.
Dunedin city councillors have partially backtracked on a decision to reject an application for out-of-zone water connections to a Signal Hill property.
The extent to which proposed changes to the law relating to burial and cremation will affect the Dunedin City Council - at a time when it is under pressure from ratepayers and Central Government to control spending - is a worry, the council says.
Any sudden move to a new rate of Government funding that could create a $4.3 million reduction in work done on Dunedin's roads each year would compromise the city council's ability to maintain acceptable levels of service, the council says.
Major ongoing losses are predicted by the company running Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium following a review identifying operating costs and expenditure.
An advisory group is to be established to assist the Dunedin City Council with the development of a new arts and culture strategy.
Lawrie Forbes is at it again.
Dunedin developers will pay increased contributions to the Dunedin City Council but ratepayers will not immediately see a reduction in rates increases, under a proposed new allocation of development-related costs.
Having the ability to confiscate skateboards in the inner city would be ''extremely useful'', Dunedin police say.
The Environment Court has given the developers of Dunedin's proposed waterfront hotel until the end of April to conclude talks with the Dunedin City Council.
Dunedin police's district operations manager Inspector Alastair Dickie is to take up the role of Clutha-Taieri area response manager.
The Mosgiel Business Association is to ask the Dunedin City Council to help fund the $7000 annual upkeep of 20 planter boxes in Mosgiel's main streets.
Surfers and surf life-savers say the actions of the driver of a boat which they say did ''donuts'' within metres of surfers at St Clair on Saturday were inappropriate and risky, but the fisherman involved says he did nothing wrong.
Out-of-town visitors will not be charged to visit Dunedin's council-owned cultural institutions, but councillors have signalled they expect the institutions to find other ways of making money.
The Dunedin City Council has employed a person to help attract international students to the city to study.
