Vaughan Elder

The roll-out of free gig-speed Wi-Fi hot spots across Dunedin is moving ahead faster than originally scheduled and two are expected to be live by the end of this month.

Dunedin City Council staff have been vindicated by peer reviews which backed their findings over the cause of last June's devastating floods.

Dunedin tradesmen have been given a boost by millions of dollars in insurance money which has flowed into the city since last June's floods.

After having her wish come true, Dunedin girl Paige Hughes and her family were more than happy to label a few sweets in preparation for the Jaffa Race on July 22.

Driving into Kaitangata, you would never guess you were in a town which, over the space of a week, has gone from being little known outside Otago to an unlikely international media darling.

A small Otago town is continuing to attract the gaze of a troubled world as thousands contact the local mayor eager to move there.

Dunedin police are reviewing CCTV footage of a man dressed as a woman who committed a serious sexual assault early last Sunday in North Dunedin.

After being slammed for its performance before last June's flood, Fulton Hogan has been dumped from its $39 million Dunedin City Council contract.

The Dunedin City Council says a multi-million dollar road maintenance contract marks a major shift in the way the work will be reported and assessed.

The waiting list for a Dunedin state house is the longest it has been in two years as Housing New Zealand looks to sell 36 properties in the city.

A Maori Hill resident is fed up with the incessant noise and dust caused by road works which have been going on outside his house for a year.

Unanswered questions about the long-term future of South Dunedin and the city's response to climate change loomed large at a heated public meeting last night.

An Otago Peninsula resident is worried her local beach could be destroyed by work needed to buttress a $2.8 million slip repair at Turnbull Bay.

An independent auditor has found "insufficient evidence'' to back Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis' claim he paid a backhander to a council manager.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has backed a decision to give a parks maintenance contract to a Christchurch City Council-owned company over a locally owned alternative.

A woman in her 60s was seriously injured after falling from her bicycle on Otago Peninsula this afternoon.

A Dunedin City Council hearings panel has bowed to pressure from dog owners to let their pooches run free on the edge of sports fields.