Debbie Porteous

Another senior manager is to have a quick exit from the Dunedin City Council after the announcement yesterday of his departure.

Funding for the further development of cycle lane options proposed for Dunedin's one-way system has passed its first hurdle.

Dunedin's building consent authority is struggling to keep up with the 20 working days limit for processing consents as it battles with a staff shortage and pressure on the capacity to process its overflow due to the Christchurch rebuild.

In a move rarely used since the Dunedin City Council starting cracking down on spending, councillors have agreed to use underspend to complete a project, rather than to pay back debt.

A company developing a small Ravensbourne site is awaiting a decision from the Dunedin City Council on whether it will continue to require soil testing on the site before the project can go ahead.

Will they stop and shake hands with people waiting in the Octagon?

A multi-storey development housing parking and businesses is being considered for the Dunedin City Council-owned Frederick St car park site.

Dunedin company Animation Research Ltd (ARL) is celebrating the Sports Emmy Award nomination of an app produced on a shoestring budget.

Earthworks for a three-level car park to be built behind the former chief post office in Dunedin are expected to start within a month.

The approach to Dunedin International Airport is about to become prettier, with new landscaping on Miller Rd.

The economic development of a city is a long game, but a partnership approach is already making a difference to Dunedin's economy, the city's deputy mayor says.

When people who have been to Boeing's factory at Everett, north of Seattle, say it is big, and then continue to go on about how big it is, that is because it is stupendously large.

A separated cycle lane is to be installed on the north side of Musselburgh Rise through the Musselburgh shopping area, as part of the South Dunedin cycle network.

Southern plans for commemorating the centenary of World War 1 were revealed at a ceremony in Dunedin yesterday and were accompanied by a call from the region's mayors and historians for the public to get involved.

Restrictions on mobile trading in Dunedin are to be relaxed, although the council has warned it will be looking for mobile traders to pay their fair share of trading costs, as fixed businesses do.

A teen who needed major surgery and two weeks' physio to be able to walk out to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after she damaged her knee practising her curtsy, says all the pain was worth it.

An upgrade of the main pedestrian thoroughfare linking the chief post office hotel development and central Dunedin might be on hold after the budget could not be stretched far enough.