Chris Morris

Police are investigating the aggravated robbery of a Dunedin dairy.

Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis says he has begun a legal challenge to reclaim his lost voting rights, although senior council staff remain in the dark about the details.

The Dunedin City Council is to press ahead with a $1.1 million plan to revamp Exchange Square and create new car-free zones in the Warehouse Precinct.

A multimillion-dollar bridge linking Dunedin's inner city and waterfront has been short-listed for Government funds.

A multimillion-dollar development on Dunedin's Princes St is still alive, but the man behind the project says ''changes'' may be needed to accommodate a row of historic facades.

A call to consider a private prosecution has come amid claims a dead man has become the fall guy for others who profited from the Dunedin City Council's $1.5 million Citifleet fraud.

Dunedin residents are being warned not to clean and reuse flood damaged carpet themselves, amid concerns contaminants now buried in them could pose a health threat.

Customers across Otago are among those complaining about nationwide glitches in Spark and 2degrees' cellphone services.

The Dunedin City Council will review the performance of its staff and of contractor Fulton Hogan amid claims a lack of basic maintenance contributed to flooding in South Dunedin.

Supermarkets have been put ''on notice'' after Countdown's central Dunedin store was twice found to be offering illegally discounted alcohol as part of a nationwide promotion.

The Dunedin City Council has significantly improved its insurance for $3.4 billion of ratepayers' assets after a second flying visit to London by its group chief financial officer.

A wharfie's oversized boot may be to blame for crashing a Porsche 911 into a parked straddle carrier at Port Otago.

Police search and rescue teams and volunteer firefighters searching for a missing child near Middlemarch have found the boy safe and well this afternoon.

The future of Dunedin's local government will be shaped by about 170 submissions, but it could also come down to the views of the Local Government Commission.

A Dunedin painting contractor says his business - and possibly his staff - could suffer after being brushed out of the picture by the Dunedin City Council.

Dunedin man Richard Wilson can't figure out why he should pay to fix a pipe under a public road, blocked by a tree root coming from Dunedin City Council land.

The Dunedin City Council has dropped the toughest restrictions on bars and instead turned up the heat on off-licence sales, with the release of its local alcohol policy.

Police have ruled out charging anyone in the wake of the Dunedin City Council's $1.5 million Citifleet fraud, it has been confirmed.