The cost of living, bureaucracy and changing tastes are the biggest culprits for a spate of sporting and entertainment event cancellations this and next year, event organisers say.

A key event on the southern new year’s calendar seems likely to lapse, as its organisers step away after 12 years.

A Milton woman says the new positioning of a pedestrian crossing in the town is a death trap and defies logic.

Clutha's mayor and at least one Dunedin councillor are not seeing eye to eye on Three Waters.