Chris Morris

Skateboarders could be forced to hand over their wheels as part of a crackdown being considered by the Dunedin City Council.

The Dunedin City Council is to consider introducing new 40kmh variable speed limit zones outside some schools.

Proposed new rules for mobile traders in Dunedin could threaten the ''vibrancy'' in some parts of the city, a city councillor claims.

Otago Polytechnic students are helping put a smile on the faces of new residents in the Dunedin suburb of Brockville.

New Zealand adventurer and television star Jamie Fitzgerald has tackled the Atlantic Ocean, the Antarctic and New Zealand's wilderness.

Conflicting visions of Dunedin's future collided as debate over the city's draft transport strategy erupted at a public hearing yesterday.

The Otago Regional Council says it will consider handing responsibility for public transport to the Dunedin City Council.

A tearful Dunedin City Council staff member clutched a photograph of her late mother as she made an emotional plea for Barnes Dance pedestrian crossings in the city yesterday.

Claims the Dunedin City Council had a ''vested interest'' in granting consent for a new caravan park in Leith Valley will be tested by the Environment Court.

A public hearing to decide whether a Dunedin bar owner should receive a third temporary authority - despite opposition from police and Dunedin City Council staff - was cancelled yesterday.

The man behind the Saddle Hill quarry plans to take his fight to the High Court, but has criticised the Dunedin City Council for putting jobs on the line.

Tougher restrictions on shops selling legal highs could be coming to Otago, but not until after local body elections in October.

A $20 million student hostel to be built for Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin will be an apartment block of up to four storeys, Ngai Tahu Property staff have confirmed.

A piece of Dunedin's yachting history more than a century old is heading for Wellington, bound for a new life.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says regional development and the threat to Invermay did not come up when he shook Prime Minister John Key's hand yesterday.

Southern voices have joined together in an unprecedented display of unity to call for more investment, not less, in Dunedin's Invermay agricultural research centre.