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Cold and damp houses in Dunedin are a ''community shame'', Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.

The troubled South Dunedin cycle network may be pared back to a single city to sea path to enable it to be completed within budget.

A petition calling on the Government to address a broad spectrum of issues, including climate change, has been dismissed by a parliamentary select committee.

Does New Zealand need a new flag?

The financially stressed Southern District Health Board has been given a $7 million cash injection so it can pay its bills, Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman has confirmed.

''If it continues into next year, ... it's going to be ugly for a lot of people. There will be casualties eventually.''

Pressure on landlords to provide warm and dry accommodation is raising rents and putting some people on the street. Shawn McAvinue reports.

Power has been cut to 150 East Taieri homes as a safety measure after heavy rain caused widespread flooding in coastal Otago, and Aurora Energy is warning more homes could be affected.

The wait is over: the final four designs for a proposed new national flag have been revealed.

As Wanaka and Queenstown put on the Winter Games, the Green Party is warning climate change could wreak havoc on the snow sports industry if nothing is done to stop it.

The group running the flag referendum has just released a set of 40 flag designs from which the final four will most likely be chosen for the vote in November.

Protesters jostled with police last night as they tried to disrupt a National Party fundraising event in Dunedin.

A Dunedin City Council planner remains opposed to a proposed $15 million Mosgiel supermarket, despite several changes to the plans.

Dunedin is a small city with great unrealised potential, writes Angus Mackay.

Rugby league great Graham Lowe has alarmed Jacinda Ardern after describing her as "a pretty little thing" when asked if she would make a good Prime Minister.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says the Dunedin City Council will soon begin a major push to attract hotel development to the city.

Thousands of people have turned up to protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Dunedin and across the country today

Jail time courtesy of United States Homeland Security was not on Otago Daily Times columnist Lisa Scott's radar as she journeyed to the Home of the Free. Regular readers of her column in The Weekend Mix, ''Tales from the Powder Room'', know of the difficulties Lisa and her partner, the economist, have encountered securing a visa for his sabbatical in the US. Well, those inconveniences were nothing compared with the reality of US border security. From the safety of a plane home, Lisa recounts the full story.

Dunes along Dunedin's Ocean Beach have receded nearly 9m in the past four weeks and will continue to disappear unless immediate action is taken, a St Clair resident told the Dunedin City Council yesterday.

Dunedin residents may be able to plug in their cars and charge them just as easily as they would a mobile phone if a study being discussed by the Otago Chamber of Commerce and Dunedin City Council goes ahead.