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Asset sales by the Dunedin City Council could soon be back on the table.

Questions are being asked about the effectiveness of a glass display case housing a locomotive at the Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin.

A Dunedin businessman is seeking significant costs from the Dunedin City Council after a protracted legal dispute over a highway realignment near Forsyth Barr Stadium.

Dunedin city councillor Bill Acklin faces a second conviction for drink-driving after he failed a breath-test in Green Island at the weekend.

Grants earmarked for the amateur rugby game were used by the Otago Rugby Football Union to pay creditors, New Zealand Rugby Union appointed change manager Jeremy Curragh has confirmed.

A leading international adviser on city economic development says Dunedin has a "great opportunity" to become a world-leading small city.

A key rule of economics is that incentives shape human behaviour for better or worse.

The "terrible carnage" happening on Portobello Rd could be stopped by the completion of the road-widening, cycleway-walkway project, Otago Peninsula Community Board chairman John Bellamy says.

The Dunedin City Council says it will be forced to consider more funding to help the company running the Forsyth Barr Stadium overcome a nearly $2 million loss and debt-servicing costs it cannot afford to pay.