Craig Borley

Mosgiel will get its slice of Dunedin's cycleway pie but may have to wait longer than three years to see it.

A leaked report on Dunedin's historic courthouse shows the Ministry of Justice was advised in 2012 the entire complex could be made safe for $2.5 million, within a 40-week period, and without emptying the building of its court services.

Dunes along Dunedin's Ocean Beach have receded nearly 9m in the past four weeks and will continue to disappear unless immediate action is taken, a St Clair resident told the Dunedin City Council yesterday.

There are public parks and public gardens with great collections of plants, but they are not botanic gardens, Dunedin Botanic Garden propagation services officer Alice Lloyd-Fitt said yesterday.

Death comes to all ships, and there is little romance or dignity involved, it has been revealed on Dunedin's Kitchener St slipway.

Tart up the warehouse precinct's ugly duckling and watch the rest of it come to life, submitters told a Dunedin City Council hearing about the proposed Jetty St pedestrian zone yesterday.

A surge in flu-like illnesses has swept southern Dunedin schools in the past week, leaving hundreds of pupils at home and health clinics overrun with patients.

Children who are unwell need to be kept away from school until they are better, Southern District Heath Board medical officer of health Dr Keith Reid says.

Mosgiel residents could know by the end of this month whether the proposed Countdown supermarket will be built.

The South's young vocal talent rang through the University of Otago's Marama Hall yesterday as 30 pupils competed in the annual New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing (Newzats) vocal competition.

If Dunedin's unseasonably sunny Sunday and mild temperatures had you thinking winter was petering out, think again.

The Government's refusal to confirm that court services will return to Dunedin's historic courthouse nas brought calls of ''double standards'', ''lunacy'', and ''bureaucratic incompetence'' from Dunedin city councillors.

Dunedin's historic courthouse was opened briefly yesterday as Ministry of Justice officials walked media through the mothballed building.

Sand from Otago Harbour is on its way to Dunedin's beleaguered Ocean Beach.

Throw out your vegetables. That is one of the messages for South Dunedin residents whose gardens were flooded last week.

Justice Minister Amy Adams has offered no guarantee Dunedin's historic courthouse will be saved, saying required strengthening work was estimated to cost well above $10million.

Criminal lawyers have demanded Dunedin's historic courthouse be partially reopened, in a letter to the Minister of Justice.

A man has been flown to Dunedin Hospital with serious leg injuries following a crash on State Highway 1 between Milton and Balclutha.  

The cost of strengthening Dunedin's historic courthouse more than doubled after engineers completed ''detailed investigations'' into the 113-year-old building, the Otago Daily Times has learned.