Although they are yet to see the fine details, two of those who work with the disabled in Dunedin are welcoming additional government funding for services.
Two cycling advocates have asked the council to consider reducing the vehicle speed limit in Dunedin's central business district and some suburban areas to 30kmh.
Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (Reinz) southern area spokeswoman Liz Nidd is under no illusions about why the median house price in Dunedin continues to hover around the low to mid-$200,000 bracket.
The number of real estate agents working in Otago and Southland has plunged by almost a third in three years, licensing figures show.
Football South, the governing body for football in the lower half of the South Island, strongly supports the Dunedin City Council installing a multipurpose artificial turf at Logan Park and says it might be able to help fund a turf, provided the correct pitch is chosen.
The trust running the Dunedin gasworks museum says about $2.5 million of council funding is needed over the next two years to address critical maintenance and development issues.
Dunedin was at risk of becoming two cities, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says - a city where education was prized with a cluster of services and activities around the University of Otago and the CDB, and the large, flat basin on South Dunedin and its surrounds "which remain largely ignored".
More North Dunedin student flats than usual have been placed on the market this year.
Work began this week on Dunedin's newest retirement village.
A Dunedin swimming coach has made an impassioned plea for the council to scale back a proposed lane charge for swimmers training at Moana Pool.
A Dunedin City Council-owned property on Burma Rd has been identified by Dog Rescue Dunedin (DRD) as a potentially suitable site for a city pound and dog sanctuary.
Mosgiel Taieri Community Board chairman Bill Feather has urged the Dunedin City Council not to delay planning for a new swimming pool in the town.
It may be an unassuming building, but music academic Dr Graeme Downes says to those who know its significance in music circles, heritage recognition for Dunedin's Empire Hotel is "a pretty amazing thing".
Claims that the main ingredients for paint, plastics, industrial alcohol, fuel and even artificial sweetener can be produced from willow trees in a single process would seem to be the stuff of science fiction. But reporter Allison Rudd discovered a Taupo-based company which has perfected the technology with the help of a New Zealand research and development team.
The owners of two unstable 19th-century Dunedin buildings say they cannot believe how long it is taking to demolish them.
Mad Butcher franchise owner Tony Coulston had only one reaction when told Dunedin City Council resource consent for his new Dunedin retail outlet had been approved - "relief".
The What's My Number campaign has been credited with spurring competition between electricity retailers.
The flow-on effects of the Christchurch earthquake will cost the Dunedin Catholic diocese about $300,000 this year, general manager Stuart Young says.
The Dunedin City Council is trying to sell a 4ha parcel of vacant industrial land it owns on the Taieri Plain.
The group planning to buy the former Dunedin Prison has applied to the Dunedin City Council for rates relief for the Castle St building.