There is an appetite for a commuter train trial in Dunedin — but whether people would actually use the service needs to be tested, Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins says.
A six-week trial of commuter trains between Mosgiel and Dunedin could save jobs and keep Dunedin Railways infrastructure usable, Rail & Maritime Transport Union branch secretary Dave Kearns says.
The Mosgiel-Taieri Community Board led the six Dunedin community boards’ annual plan hearings submissions with a push for 13 Covid-19-related responses in the Dunedin City Council’s forthcoming...
The former Sims Engineering building in Port Chalmers needs $450,000 in remedial work but could become a registered heritage building and ‘‘a very swish industrial site — and a community...
Both the young and the old called on Dunedin City Council to support changes to the way buses run in the city, at yesterday’s 2020-21 annual plan hearings. Both senior citizens and students made...
Orokonui Ecosanctuary’s predator fence is vulnerable in three high-risk areas and so, too, are the protected species inside, Otago Natural History Trust chairman Colin Campbell-Hunt says.
When fire crews arrived at a rural Kuri Bush blaze on Saturday night, flames leapt 20m high and ammunition was going off inside a large shed engulfed in flames at the remote property.
More than $100 million in infrastructure spending could be a game-changer as Dunedin continues to struggle through a housing crisis exacerbated by the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
When fire crews arrived at a rural Kuri Bush blaze last night, flames leapt 20m high and ammunition was going off inside a large shed at the remote property.
Despite the possibility of a major Covid-19 outbreak in the South now being low "we should still be prepared", Southern District Health Board chief medical officer Nigel Millar says.
Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins says he has no interest in a "slash-and-burn budget" — but he has called for a revised budget for the coming year in light of the effects of Covid-19 on the local economy.
Revenue has crash-landed at Dunedin Airport amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and the airport’s executive leadership says there will not be a return to normal in the foreseeable future.
International students contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to Otago’s economy; with the country’s borders closed, the hit to the international education sector will be significant and the...
Amid the global Covid-19 pandemic a private jet which landed at Dunedin Airport from Cambodia has left for Hong Kong carrying 10 international travellers today.