Chris Morris

The New Zealand Transport Agency plans to press ahead with improvements to a deadly intersection as part of a push to improve the safety of cyclists on Dunedin's one-way streets.

Dunedin city councillors have again been reassured the days of Dunedin City Holdings Ltd companies borrowing to help fund dividend payments to the council are over.

Plans for a single new house on the Otago Peninsula have prompted concerns about the area's rural ambience being eroded.

Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis has been accused of electioneering after turning a procedural item at yesterday's Dunedin City Council meeting into an attack on council staff.

Plans for a $4.5 million investment in cycleways in South Dunedin have passed another hurdle, despite a suggestion that cycleways offering only the protection of a painted white line should be abandoned.

A record crowd of up to 40,000 fans could pack Forsyth Barr Stadium when Aerosmith headlines a major rock event in Dunedin.

The man promoting a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin has produced new images of what the 28-storey tower would look like, but ruled out using a tethered balloon to demonstrate its height.

South Dunedin streets could become low-speed quiet zones, as part of a $4.5 million plan to improve the area's cycling facilities.

Dunedin Ratepayers and Householders' Association chairman Lyndon Weggery has been accused by the group's secretary of being ''the chairman of nothing''.

A developer, who says he is frustrated by years of delays and mounting costs, has accused the Dunedin City Council of stifling city growth.