A multimillion-dollar refurbishment of Dunedin's Golden Centre should also resolve a dispute with the Dunedin City Council over an incomplete walkway linking the centre and the city's new Wall Street mall.
A Dunedin-based company is joining forces with two international partners in a $3 million deal to help fight the spreading "epidemic" of autism.
Dunedin start-up computer game company Areo has provided a bright light in gloomy economic times, winning a place alongside some of New Zealand's - and the world's - top companies in a prestigious international competition.
Otago timber workers are among thousands of New Zealanders being asked to come forward after new research highlighted the dangers of historic exposure to the chemical pentachlorophenol (PCP).
When Dunedin Hospital emergency department nurse Rosie Simpson speaks next week about the physical toll a car crash inflicts on a young human body, more than 1500 young drivers from around Otago will be listening.
Firefighters at Dunedin International Airport are having soaring success minimising the risk of bird strikes - by using fake birds to frighten away the real ones.
A new library and improved parking top a wish-list for South Dunedin businesses, a survey has found.
About 400 people took the chance to tour some of Dunedin's historic homes yesterday.
Wall Street retailers who opened in time for the mall's first weekend of full trading are enjoying the fruits of their labour, Dunedin City Council city property manager Robert Clark says.
Two youths arrested following a police pursuit through southern centres will face a variety of charges for alleged offences stretching from Christchurch to Invercargill, police say.
Dunedin's popular John Wilson Ocean Dr will not reopen to motorists, despite the removal of construction material associated with the city's new 1.1km outfall pipe, council staff say.
The Dunedin City Council's economic development unit (EDU) and the city's Upstart Business Incubator are considering a series of steps, including a $50,000 marketing support fund, to try to minimise the impact of the credit crunch on some of Dunedin's brightest young companies.
A team of surgeons led by a Dunedin cell biologist are preparing to insert mature cells containing stem cells into a dozen disabled New Zealanders in a bid to help them walk again.
Ben Thompson, wearing an aerodynamic "skin suit", tackles the world's steepest street on his way to winning last night's Baldwin St Gutbuster Race in Dunedin. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
Ben Thompson had much to prove last night after arriving for the Baldwin St Gutbuster Race in a skin-tight leotard which left little to the imagination.
A group of animal rights activists will protest against the treatment of Jumbo the elephant when the travelling Loritz Circus arrives in Dunedin for shows next month.
It could be another year before the remains of a historic pedestrian causeway, unearthed during construction of Dunedin's Wall Street development, are encased in glass within the mall.
The Dunedin City Council has applied for retrospective resource consent to avoid any possibility of a legal entanglement over emergency beach repair work at St Clair and Middle beaches almost two years ago.
A Dunedin city councillor is calling for community debate over conflicting visions for the future of Dunedin's harbourside area, as civic and business leaders prepare to pitch the city as the perfect home for an operational base to multinational oil companies.
A plumbing company responsible for errors that led to the contamination of an East Taieri creek has been fined and ordered to pay costs, while the Dunedin City Council's procedures have been criticised as "inadequate".
The Dunedin City Council is still no closer to finding out who will pay a $275,000 bill for damage to the city's 104-year-old pedestrian overbridge after it was hit by a container on a railway wagon more than a year ago.