Grant Miller

The Dunedin City Council will need to be careful about applying charges to requests for public information, a prominent media commentator says.

They may not have inherited their great-grandfather's love of fishing, but Ian and Peter Begg have retained parts of his legacy.

The company that runs Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is in line to get about $2million more annually from the city council, but it is not yet clear precisely why.

A "surrender" by the Dunedin City Council on expanding its community housing portfolio has disappointed a former mayor, who says it will still need to be engaged in solutions.

Dunedin households with unsuitable wheelie bins can get sizes switched without charge for a limited time.

Dunedin is unlikely to achieve 2030 zero-carbon aspirations, the city council has conceded.

Councillors have pushed projected rates rises in Dunedin above 10%.

Events and festivals in Dunedin could get a $4.4million boost over four years, but even that has been described as "a drop in the ocean".

A rail tourism company’s pitch to take over the Dunedin Railways operation has not found favour with the Dunedin City Council.

Affordability of rates was one aspiration stressed by Dunedin councillors as they discussed draft budgets.

A prominent Dunedin businessman has hit the accelerator on his campaign to be the city’s next mayor.

Momentum appears to be building for bringing trains back to Middlemarch, but a sustainable model has yet to be thrashed out.

A $38.4 million detention pond at the former Forbury Park raceway was looked at among short-term options for reducing flooding in South Dunedin.

Dunedin residents could be facing rates rises of almost 10% a year for the next three years.

A norovirus outbreak at a Dunedin aged-care facility appears to have been contained.

Problems with a sewerage plant near Queenstown are to be dealt with in court.