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Protecting Dunedin’s first tenanted state house could hamper Kāinga Ora’s ability to provide housing for those in need, the agency says.

When Dunedin goes looking for government money to shore up South Dunedin against sea-level rise it needs to be "doing everything within its own powers to be fixing the problem at its source", a...

An agreement has been reached in the Environment Court around the faltering Shotover wastewater treatment plant, but both sides are keeping it under wraps.

‘‘We all just want peace - we want nothing but peace.’’

Gull numbers may have passed their peak at Dunedin’s landfill, but the council says it has not yet seen any evidence of a significant decline in their numbers citywide.

Riverbed works to enable the ongoing discharge of treated wastewater into the Shotover River will be done on dry land as much as possible to mitigate damage to the environment, application...

A housing advocacy group has raised the spectre of predetermination on a hearings panel that could add 146 properties to Dunedin’s heritage register.

The world’s leading expert on Foulden Maar has once again been locked out of the prolific palaeontological site — but this time by the Dunedin City Council.

Attracting birds to your yard might mean you are providing a good habitat, University of Otago zoology professor Bruce Robertson says.

A second Queenstown Lakes wastewater treatment plant’s failure provides further evidence of under-investment in infrastructure exposed by rapid population growth, a regional councillor says.