Port Chalmers will have its own Dunedin Stadium meeting this Sunday, and the area's city council representative, Cr Andrew Noone, has agreed to attend and explain his position on the project.
Dunedin city councillor Dave Cull wants to put his concerns about public consultation on the city's planned stadium to Local Government Minister Rodney Hide, who signalled this week he was willing to come to Dunedin to look at into the issue.
A circus elephant at the centre of an animal rights controversy has been banned from Dunedin City Council reserves, following a U-turn by the council yesterday.
The Dunedin City Council yesterday effectively ignored one of two resolutions carried at Sunday's Stop the Stadium-organised meeting, meaning the Dunedin public will not get a further chance to put their views to the council before a contract to build the stadium has been signed.
The Dunedin Town Hall echoed to the sound of a clapping and stamping crowd clearly and vociferously opposed to the proposed stadium last night.
Peter Chin
A Dunedin City Council decision on whether to sign a contract with Hawkins Construction to build the stadium - potentially the last major decision before construction - will now be made on April 20.
A hire agreement between the Otago Rugby Football Union and the Carisbrook Stadium Trust will be discussed by the Dunedin City Council at its meeting on Monday, as will what is understood to be a report on a code of conduct inquiry into the actions of Cr Teresa Stevenson.
Research managing director Ian Taylor has criticised the Government's decision not to include tax credits for research and development in its economic policies.
Dunedin computer graphics company Animation Research Ltd has taken the chequered flag in a race to win a contract to provide graphics for this year's Formula One series for the BBC.
In April last year, Animation Research managing director Ian Taylor entered the Moray Pl offices of his Dunedin company with every intention of closing it down.
Television, at its very best, transports lonely souls from the quiet desperation of their tiresome existence, envelops them in its warm glow, and eases their worried minds.
Environment Southland chief executive Ciaran Keogh has pulled out of Stop the Stadium's meeting this month, and announced his recent anti-stadium opinion piece in the Otago Daily Times was not written in his professional capacity.
Commissioners hearing a resource consent application to realign Dunedin's Lovelock Ave noted there was "considerable uncertainty and suspicion" among Opoho residents when they called for more information on the project.
Dunedin has missed out on money for new roading, following a Government announcement none of its priorities is south of Christchurch.
Arguments for retaining the Wesley Church on Hillside Rd, and detailing the quality of the building's aesthetics, came to the fore as a Dunedin City Council resource consent hearing into a plan to demolish the church and replace it with a $5.6 million social services complex ended.
A line-up of "unscripted" speakers at a meeting staged by the Stop the Stadium group will provide a wider range of perspectives on the stadium issue, organiser Bev Butler says.
The Wesley Church building in Hillside Rd, Dunedin, fitted with neither the tradition nor the future needs of the Methodist church, and moves to preserve it on historic grounds were a "sideshow", a resource consent committee heard yesterday.
The Dunedin City Council's energy manager, Neville Auton, already has ideas on how to use methane gas being collected from the Green Island landfill.
A full meeting of the Dunedin City Council will vote whether to approve a contract with Hawkins Construction to build Dunedin's new stadium, a vote expected to be the final decision on the project.
Some of the extra $1 billion for state highways could make its way to Dunedin, but the city will be competing with the rest of New Zealand to attract the funding.