Chris Morris

An emotional Tony Avery wishes he could turn back the clock and stop the alleged $1.5 million Citifleet fraud.

The Dunedin City Council sees a hint of light at the end of the tunnel after four years of high-profile headaches, but it is counting the cost after an almost complete clean-out of its top managers. Chris Morris reports.

The Dunedin City Council's alleged Citifleet fraud has claimed another victim with the shock resignation of infrastructure and networks general manager Tony Avery.

Concerns the Macandrew Bay community is being opened up to more freedom camping, and any problems that come with it, are not justified, the Dunedin City Council says.

A visit to Dunedin by China's newly appointed consul-general shows the importance of the city's burgeoning relationship with Shanghai, Mayor Dave Cull says.

A recruitment drive has begun to identify potential new directors to help guide some of Dunedin City Council's companies.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says the future funding model for Forsyth Barr Stadium will be more transparent to put an end to a ''money-go-round'' draining the council's coffers.

It's every traveller's worst nightmare - arriving in a foreign land, phrase book in hand, and accidentally professing your love of fine pigs rather than love of the host's beautiful city.

Dunedin City Council asset sales are expected to be back on the agenda early next year, and agents of potential buyers are already lining up for a slice of the action.

Dunedin's largest public institutions have together spent tens of thousands of dollars on koha to local Maori in recent years, figures show.

Dunedin's roads will be under the spotlight next week as part of a push to save lives.

The Dunedin City Council is negotiating with its insurer to recoup a chunk of the $1.5 million lost during an alleged decade-long fraud within its Citifleet department.

Visions of a redeveloped Octagon, a more pedestrian-friendly George St and a buzzing network of free buses took centre stage at a Dunedin City Council workshop last night.

The Dunedin City Council hopes extra signs, security patrols and a new site for freedom campers will help prevent a repeat of previous headaches at Macandrew Bay this summer.

The Dunedin City Council's group of companies remain in a bullish mood, despite an $8 million drop in profits and another loss for the entity running Forsyth Barr Stadium.

A Green Island street may be closed permanently as part of a land swap with the developers behind a new multimillion-dollar Fresh Choice supermarket.

The Dunedin City Council does not plan to follow New Plymouth's lead by introducing a Maori ward, but Otakou runanga kaumatua Edward Ellison says the idea's time will come.

A facelift scheduled for inner-city Dunedin, including changes to the Octagon and George St, could help lift the city's struggling retail sector, the Dunedin City Council says.