Dunedin City Council staff and engineers are considering the response to damage to sand dunes on city beaches, and expect to come up with options later this week.
With the city under siege from both the heavens and heaving seas, David Loughrey headed into the midwinter late afternoon gloom to walk broken coastal beachside pathways. As high tide battered the sand dunes, he found a claustrophobic city hemmed in by the elements, and learned something about Dunedin's personality.
State-owned weather bureau the MetService is looking for a site near Dunedin where it can build a $3 million weather radar, capable of more clearly warning emergency services about issues like recent flooding.
Mosgiel firefighters scale a ladder while dealing with a fire in Elmwood Dr this morning.
A Dunedin crowd used to lines of large men thundering into each other with ball in hand turned out to a football match this week, as Serbia took on Hungary in the Fifa Under-20 World Cup. David Loughrey hid among the spectators in row Z, taking notes on the ebb and flow of the game, and the madness of crowds.
The Dunedin City Council says South Dunedin sports grounds are safe to use, despite contamination concerns in the area.
The Dunedin City Council is calling for feedback on its plan to close part of Jetty St in the warehouse precinct.
The flood recovery effort in South Dunedin will soon go directly to residents, as Dunedin City Council staff and volunteers head door-to-door to discover what assistance might be needed.
A state of emergency during last week's floods was never considered necessary by the emergency services that dealt with the event, Dunedin City Council civil defence and rural fires manager Neil Brown says.
The harsh glare of the media was on Prince Harry yesterday, and the tough questions came one after the other.
The sale of the historic Arthur Barnett department store is set to end 112 years of the brand in Dunedin, but ownership of the shop will remain in the South.
The future of what quarrying is allowed at Saddle Hill, in Dunedin, is in the hands of the Environment Court, after both the quarry owner and the Dunedin City Council argued their cases.
A Mornington man who has a collection of rusting cars in his yard risks losing his house if he does not get rid of them.
Ten-metre waves, whipped up deep in subantarctic waters, crashed into the Otago coast yesterday, preventing ships from entering the harbour and giving Dunedin beach defences a good workout.
The owners of the Saddle Hill quarry and the Dunedin City Council were back in court yesterday, combing over minutes from council meetings from half a century ago to work out just who has permission to do what on the controversial site.
Some Dunedin schools appear to have been struck by gastroenteritis, with one primary school reporting up to 30 pupils recently caught the bug.
The microcosm of the Trenz tourism conference in Rotorua this week gave David Loughrey a very nice, if somewhat skewed, view of the North Island centre.
A Dunedin archaeology company is discovering fragments of the avenues and alleyways of the city's past, as ultra-fast broadband (UFB) installation sparks plenty of digging on city streets.
The meeting house, or wharenui, that spent 70 years at the Otago Museum in Dunedin as an exhibit has been restored to its former glory, and is now a ''living building'' used by its Ngati Awa community.
Tapanui next week will fill with more than 200 people and everything needed to make a movie, as the cast and crew of Pete's Dragon set up in town.
