Chris Morris

The Dunedin City Council will consider allowing a new motor caravan park to be developed near Woodhaugh Gardens, just metres away from a rival camping spot.

A planned multimillion-dollar supermarket development in Green Island could bring jobs and investment and trigger wider improvements in the area, a Dunedin city councillor says.

A push to ease restrictions on freedom camping in Dunedin has taken a step forward after being endorsed for public consultation by city councillors.

The developer of a Mosgiel subdivision has won the right to name his own streets and pathways, but only after threatening to use hard-to-pronounce Scottish village names instead.

The Dunedin City Council is seeking applications for the next round of premier and major events funding.

The flagging fortunes of the Dunedin Chinese Garden have been delivered a boost with the opening of the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum next door.

Corrison in a near-new high-voltage power transformer bought by Delta from Indonesia has been linked to a failure that caused a power surge across Dunedin.

The Office of the Auditor-general considers its investigation into land purchases by Dunedin City Council-owned company Delta to be one of its major inquiries for the coming year.

There are fears Dunedin could lose out to Auckland as a result of proposed changes to the way the New Zealand Transport Agency allocates funding for roading projects.

A sedate debate turned heated as Crs Teresa Stevenson and Colin Weatherall traded claims of rural bias and points of order at a Dunedin City Council planning and environment committee meeting yesterday.