Council finance and strategy general manager Athol Stephens says the Otago Stadium will not cost more than $66 a year for the average household for the city council's share of the funding.
Fears are held in Fiji for 24 people whose boat failed to turn up at Suva in flood-torn Fiji yesterday.
A Dunedin stadium zone has been approved and the campus zone extended in decisions just released by planning commissioners.
Ten people had their overnight cruise in Doubtful Sound cut short after three became ill on Sunday evening.
The caller may have been replaced by a computer - an Australian one at that - but Syd Adie is still going strong as he celebrates 40 years of running a housie competition in Dunedin.
The Dunedin City Council is continuing with its attempt to secure money from the Government for the Otago Stadium, but the timing of the response remains uncertain.
After two years and the spending of $45 million of ratepayers' money, the Otago Stadium issue is still not finally resolved.
Dunedin civil defence manager Neil Brown has been ruled the primary person on-call for civil defence warnings in the city, despite his contention he was not contractually bound to be personally available at all times.
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide may have lost his position as the great hope of stadium opponents,
Seacliff residents Liz Abbott and Rudie Verhoef are taking a community approach - and a "free market" approach - to their latest venture.
Dunedin's restaurants and cafes have another reason to keep their cleanliness standards high, with a Dunedin City Council website that grades food premises proving popular with diners.
He has no name, and was in a bit of a scratchy mood yesterday, but Nikki Meissel and Dan Cotter's new baby was welcomed into the world as one of the first babies born in New Zealand in 2009.
Police are praising security staff at hotels and a 24-hour convenience store, and Dunedin City Council's safety officers, for their help after a brawl involving about 30 people erupted in the Octagon early yesterday.
Difficult financial conditions may have meant people were keeping their coins in their pockets, but John Griffiths has still managed to raise $19,100 for charity in the past year.
A group of elderly people from a Mosgiel rest-home escaped serious injury yesterday when the minivan they were in rolled down a bank in South Otago.
The Hospice remembrance tree has had a record year, with an $11,000 haul, despite gloomy financial conditions.
Details of possible Government infrastructure funding for the Otago Stadium will not be clear until early next year, but the Dunedin City Council plans to make the most of the situation.
Organisers were "absolutely rapt" by a turnout of about 80 people to an art event on a chilly Quarantine Island on Saturday.
A developer's decision not to supply a heritage assessment for a project that involves demolishing a row of four Princes St buildings in a protected townscape zone - claiming timing and financial constraints made it impossible - has received a sharp rebuke from the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
Dunedin city councillor Teresa Stevenson has taken council staff to task for making changes to a social housing report she helped develop, and complained about meetings held with the public excluded to discuss next year's budget.