Chris Morris

The Dunedin City Council faces a $340,000 bill to preserve the remnants of a historic manuka causeway unearthed during construction of the Wall Street mall.

The Dunedin City Council took the unusual step of adjourning its meeting yesterday as councillors acknowledged the death of Dunedin philanthropist and businessman Les Cleveland.

Dunedin's central city parking is in for a shake-up as part of a push to improve cycle safety on the city's one-way streets.

Children will have the run of the place during the day, and adults at night, when Dunedin's Wall Street mall welcomes a new business today.

The Dunedin City Council has settled on a 4% rates rise after opting to invest more than $1 million in projects expected to generate millions more in savings over time.

Dunedin city councillors were forced to grit their teeth and pick winners and losers when confronted with a list of smaller funding requests yesterday.

A last-minute bid to increase the Dunedin City Council's share of funding for a rock breakwater to protect Te Rauone Beach, on Otago Peninsula, has failed.

The Dunedin City Council has authorised a $100,000 emergency loan and will seek expert advice to tackle mounting concern over the deteriorating condition of the Dunedin Gasworks Museum.

The amount of fluoride being added to Dunedin's drinking water is to be reduced within days, after city councillors opted to play it safe despite lingering doubts over the science behind the debate.

Dunedin city councillors will today have to decide how best to use nearly $1 million ''windfall'' in savings that could trim the coming year's rates increase to 3.2%.