Debbie Porteous

After three years under wraps, the traffic lights at the intersection of Anzac Ave and Frederick St in Dunedin are finally set to be commissioned.

Plans for more work on a new road layout on part of Portobello Rd in Dunedin have been put on hold.

An Otago Peninsula community leader has lambasted the Dunedin companies that designed and built the faulty Portobello pontoon, saying it is ''totally unacceptable'' they are not putting the situation right immediately.

The man instrumental in the Dunedin City Council's move to take the Saddle Hill quarry matter to court plans to stay active on the topic and is keen to help find a solution that is acceptable to the quarry's owners, the council and the community.

Calvin Fisher says he understands the community's concerns about quarrying on Saddle Hill, but advises people to direct their frustrations to the Dunedin City Council, not him.

Residents deeply disappointed with a High Court decision that a consent does exist to quarry Saddle Hill, near Dunedin, are vowing to fight on to save it.

The Otago University Students' Association has had a crack at out-of-town student event organisers about a lack of commitment to health and safety.

A Dunedin developer has won a battle against industrial neighbours to convert a historic warehouse on the city's waterfront to apartments, but not without his verbal attacks on opponents being denounced by the consenting authority.

A group planning New Zealand's second co-housing community is unapologetic about trying to do something different in Dunedin.

The organiser of a proposed paint party at Logan Park says he is willing to consider breath-testing people as they come in the gate, but thinks it would be a ''slightly extreme'' thing to have to do.

A top public health official was the source of information that Dunedin punters were offered cheap drinks in exchange for filling in a submission form on a draft local alcohol policy, it has been revealed.

The Automobile Association has chipped in on what to do about Dunedin's Portobello Rd, offering to host an urgent public meeting.

There could be more car parks around State Highway 1 in central Dunedin after a cycle lane is built on it, if city council plans come to fruition.

When people leave bars there will be trouble in the streets, but if they leave them earlier the trouble is likely to be less, Dunedin police say.

Bars closing might be the price of becoming a civil society, a social service agency says, as no-shows dominated the second day of hearings on Dunedin's draft local alcohol policy (Lap).

A group of Outram School children outdid themselves in a recent fundraiser to help Brighton's little blue penguins.

Otago's top policeman has slammed an industry-commissioned economic impact report on Dunedin's draft local alcohol policy (Lap) as flawed and misleading.