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Excavating tip may need military help: Beca
Excavating a former Dunedin tip may need military supervision after rumours a wax-wrapped box of machine guns and ammunition were found there.
Hamish MacLean
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Call for rethink on paint in soil
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Call for rethink on paint in soil
Dunedin's approach to the toxic legacy of lead paint in soil surrounding old homes is out of step with the rest of the country, a "frustrated" city councillor says.
Obituary: There and back again at OBHS
Obituary: There and back again at OBHS
When Clive Rennie retired to Whanganui he did not have to pay the man who cut his lawn.
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Lead-soil rule review idea nixed
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Lead-soil rule review idea nixed
An independent review of Dunedin’s contentious rules for lead-soil testing requirements is the only "credible" way forward, a critic says.
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‘Gutted’ at lack of interest in filling shoes
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‘Gutted’ at lack of interest in filling shoes
A departing Saddle Hill Community Board stalwart says he is "gutted" at the apparent lack of interest in replacing him.
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Warning Aurora power bills may rise $10
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Warning Aurora power bills may rise $10
Household electricity bills for Aurora Energy customers could increase by an average of about $10 a month next year, the Commerce Commission says.
Grant spurs cancer test research
Researchers hunting early pancreatic cancer markers
Dunedin researchers are heading up an international study to identify abnormal DNA markers in order to detect a deadly cancer before it is too late.
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‘Enduring’ solutions important, councillors say
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‘Enduring’ solutions important, councillors say
Resource management reform should produce "enduring, consistent and stable" solutions, Otago regional councillors say.
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Work stalls on ORC’s new air plan
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Work stalls on ORC’s new air plan
Work has stopped on new rules for home heating to manage and improve air quality in the region, the Otago Regional Council has confirmed.
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No ‘winner’ on options for South D
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No ‘winner’ on options for South D
No "winner" will emerge from a shortlist of options for how South Dunedin is reconfigured to withstand the effects of climate change.
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Majority backs going with the flow
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Majority backs going with the flow
A future where South Dunedin is dotted with waterways and wetlands has been backed by residents as the best hope to address climate change.
Hearings bound for Environment Court
Hearings bound for Environment Court
Hearings for retrospective consents to allow the Shotover wastewater treatment plant to discharge treated wastewater directly into the Shotover River will take place in the Environment Court.
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Climate change response timeframe at odds with visions
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Climate change response timeframe at odds with visions
Responding to climate change risks in South Dunedin needs to happen much sooner than the 75-year visions promoted for the suburb earlier this year, a new report suggests.
Mayor suffers ‘mini stroke’
Mayor suffers ‘mini stroke’
Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark is recovering at home after a minor stroke at the weekend, his deputy says.
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Mayor confident gondola on the horizon
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Mayor confident gondola on the horizon
Gondolas are a go and maybe congestion charges, too, Queenstown Mayor Glyn Lewers says.
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Flood response ‘incompetent’, ‘ignorant’
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Council response to flooding ‘incompetent’, ‘ignorant’
The city council’s response to flood-weary Surrey St residents has been slammed as "disingenuous", "incompetent" and "ignorant".
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Committee formed to look at any regional deals
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Committee formed to look at any regional deals
Otago regional councillors wary of a potential Otago Central Lakes regional deal claim its proposals could undermine the public health system, or the council’s role as a mining regulator, and say...
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Wastewater may exceed ammonia bottom lines: ORC
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Wastewater may exceed ammonia bottom lines: ORC
Treated wastewater being discharged into the Shotover River may be exceeding national bottom lines for ammonia, the Otago Regional Council (ORC) says.
‘Kremlin’ councils need to go: Jones
‘Kremlin’ councils need to go: Jones
Resource Minister Shane Jones has called the Otago Regional Council "the Kremlin of the South Island" after an application to expand the Macraes gold mine ran into trouble.
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‘Tricky balance’: free child bus fares end
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‘Tricky balance’: free child bus fares end
Making children pay bus fares was a bitter pill to swallow for Otago regional councillors yesterday.