Legal advice taken on muzzling The Dunedin owners of a dog have been unsuccessful in their attempts to have the menacing dog classification imposed on their pet lifted.
If the 19th century was the coal age and the 20th century the petrol age, the 21st century will be the bioeconomy age, Bioenergy Association of New Zealand executive officer Brian Cox says. Reporter Allison Rudd examines the association's national bioenergy strategy and the momentum it has generated since its release a year ago.
Dunedin Roman Catholic Bishop Colin Campbell could be in line for a "rap over the knuckles" from the Pope for strongly criticising a new translation of the official prayers, responses and music used in Catholic Masses, a Dunedin academic says.
A german shepherd which attacked a smaller animal at a Dunedin dog park last year and bit a woman on the arm in 2007 should continue to be classified as menacing, a senior Dunedin City Council animal control officer says.
A first-time Dunedin property developer says he is pleased a lengthy dispute with the Otago Regional Council that resulted in prosecution and cost him more than $100,000 is unlikely to happen to anyone else.
Dunedin "appears to be addressing the right things" in its planing to ensure the city successfully caters for economic growth and people in the future, a visiting Scottish urban planner says.
A Middlemarch tourism operator whose main business failed last month has assured creditors he is no longer trading and did not transfer assets from the company before its liquidation.
Dunedin ratepayers have spent $50,000 to rent an art work, Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis says. He said yesterday he "resigned in disgust" from the council's Art in Public...
The trust hoping to erect a cluster of wind turbines to provide electricity to Blueskin Bay area residents is about to begin the next phase - engaging with the community.
Retrieving sediment samples from the sea bed more than 2.3km below an Antarctic ice shelf has led University of Otago researcher Prof Gary Wilson to an inescapable conclusion: human activity has pushed the Earth to the edge of climate instability and it is up to humans to change that.