Dunedin City Council should be prepared for a backlash over marketing material showing people playing touch rugby close to a sea lion, a councillor has warned.

Costs relating to October’s flooding are expected to add up to about $13 million for the Dunedin City Council.

Taking tissue samples from Otago’s Hector’s dolphins is invasive and unnecessary, an academic who has studied the species for decades says.

There should be no giving up on South Dunedin as a viable place for people to live amid climate change, Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich says.

With temperatures reaching the mid-20s and the risk of only a few sprinkles of short-lived rain, the long Otago Anniversary weekend may be our "last taste" of summery weather for a while.

One of the city’s major townhouse developers says the company will not build in flood-prone South Dunedin.