An independent commissioner has come down on the side of the residents who live above Dunedin's Ellis Park and decided there will be new softball clubrooms at the park, but they will be further along Fraser Rd, away from the houses on the hill above.
The ''arrogant and counter-productive antics'' of protesters who disrupted Shell's meeting in Dunedin this week did the city a ''huge disservice'' at a time when it should be showing the oil company a friendly face, city councillors say.
The Otago Regional Council has issued a discharge consent for Hope and Sons' new cremator at Mosgiel, and says the discharge from it will not be harmful to human health and will be barely visible.
A health warning sign to be erected on St Kilda Beach near Lawyers Head is not a result of pollution caused by the Tahuna wastewater treatment plant, the Dunedin City Council says.
The crumbling last remnants of the St Clair pavilion will be largely demolished by the Dunedin City Council.
Allowing Veggie Boys to operate on the Taieri will not set a precedent because it is in a unique situation, the company says.
The Dunedin Ratepayers and Householders' Association is to be dissolved.
There was an air of excitement in the council chamber yesterday as councillors arrived for the first Dunedin City Council meeting recorded for public broadcast.
Ching Ming Day was celebrated in Dunedin this year in a fashion the city has not seen for 60 years.
Preliminary construction advice on Dunedin's controversial waterfront hotel proposal says it is ''entirely feasible'' to build a 28-storey hotel on the soft soils of the city's foreshore.
Senior jobs could be under threat at the Dunedin City Council as chief executive Paul Orders uses the sudden departure of a general manager to begin a wholesale review of the organisation's senior management structure.
Six men ended up in hospital, some with serious injuries, following several crashes in Dunedin and one at Lawrence, at the weekend.
The stage is set for the biggest concert to be held in Dunedin since Elton John played to a sellout crowd in November 2011.
It has been a good 42 years in a good job that has allowed him to do about as much as a career in civil engineering can offer, but time is up for Dunedin City Council policy engineer Peter Besuijen, who is retiring to the good life.
Retrospective consent for a Veggie Boys outlet on the outskirts of Mosgiel should not be granted because it would set a precedent that would allow grocery stores to operate in rural areas, Dunedin City Council planners say.
The Dunedin City Council has been warned that if it grants consent for more residential development on the lower and middle slopes of Saddle Hill, the rest of the hill will soon follow.
Only one of Dunedin's six community boards has decided it does not want people to hear what it says at its meetings and it voted recently not to allow sound recording.
The cost of renewing consents to discharge Dunedin's stormwater into the sea is mounting, and the bill is expected to reach at least $250,000.
The long-term future is uncertain for the rubbish bins in John Wilson Ocean Dr and in parks and reserves across the city, but they are likely to stay put for some considerable time yet.
The Dunedin City Council will investigate whether all its multi-unit flats have appropriate firewalls, after a fire in a block of council flats spread between units.
