Last year's World Youth Day, an event that brought the Pope and many thousands of young people to Sydney had an echo in Mosgiel on Saturday.
Children have been missing out, but an expo on Saturday catered for everything needed to raise, educate and amuse children, Kids World children's expo organiser Paula Andrews says.
The Dunedin City Council will begin burning off methane from its Green Island landfill next week as it tests the supply of gas to ascertain the possibility of economically harnessing power or heat.
Opposition to a plan by the Methodist Mission to demolish its church on Hillside Rd has found little support, and some strong criticism from a Dunedin City Council planner.
A planned Environment Court hearing on Dunedin's stadium was cancelled yesterday, meaning all appeals against district plan and roading changes to allow the project to go ahead have been dropped, and no costs will be pursued.
Stop the Stadium has dropped its Environment Court appeals against the district plan and roading changes necessary for the stadium project, just days before preliminary hearings were to begin.
Dunedin drivers have got an unexpected reprieve from a new, expanded, parking regime, following the possible collapse of the company supplying its parking meters.
Stop the Stadium has sought legal advice on the possibility of a judicial review of the Otago Regional Council's decision to help fund the stadium.
A district plan change allowing Dunedin's harbourside to be redeveloped with apartments, bars and cafes has been approved, prompting an angry reaction from business owners in the area, with one saying he may move his business to Christchurch.
The last week has been another momentous period in the perilous journey that is the Otago stadium - or the Forsyth Barr Stadium at University Plaza, as it was more recently named.
A decision on the future of Lovelock Ave, which runs through the Dunedin Botanic Garden from Opoho, is not expected until late next month.
For more than 100 years Tomahawk beach was often contaminated by sewage, but the Dunedin City Council says the inner city beach that was blighted by an ancient sewage system is now clean.
The Dunedin City Council voted yesterday to proceed with the Otago Stadium, subject to conditions; a clear signal the local authority is determined to push the project through.
The Otago Regional Council has today voted to confirm funding of $37.5 million for the Otago Stadium.
Preliminary work on the Otago Stadium site at Awatea St could begin as early as June, Carisbrook Stadium Trust chairman Malcolm Farry says.
The Dunedin City Council's Waipori fund has had its toughest quarter since it was set up in 1998, with sharp declines in equity markets and volatile exchange rates, although positive returns on the bond market because of lower interest rates have provided some good news.
The Dunedin City Council has agreed to terms to buy Carisbrook from the Otago Rugby Football Union, subject to agreement by both parties.
Carisbrook Stadium Trust chief executive Malcolm Farry says his organisation will have done all it has been asked to do by today, when the Dunedin City Council meets to make a decision on the stadium.
Stop the stadium, or wait for the possibility of a Government bail-out: those are two options councillors will sit to consider when they make a supposedly final decision on the project on Monday.
A plan to demolish the Wesley Church, in Hillside Rd, South Dunedin, looks set to be opposed by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, which is hoping for what it calls "a better outcome than what is intended".