Grant Miller

Councillors have pushed projected rates rises in Dunedin above 10%.

Events and festivals in Dunedin could get a $4.4million boost over four years, but even that has been described as "a drop in the ocean".

A rail tourism company’s pitch to take over the Dunedin Railways operation has not found favour with the Dunedin City Council.

Affordability of rates was one aspiration stressed by Dunedin councillors as they discussed draft budgets.

A prominent Dunedin businessman has hit the accelerator on his campaign to be the city’s next mayor.

Momentum appears to be building for bringing trains back to Middlemarch, but a sustainable model has yet to be thrashed out.

A $38.4 million detention pond at the former Forbury Park raceway was looked at among short-term options for reducing flooding in South Dunedin.

Dunedin residents could be facing rates rises of almost 10% a year for the next three years.

A norovirus outbreak at a Dunedin aged-care facility appears to have been contained.

Problems with a sewerage plant near Queenstown are to be dealt with in court.

The Dunedin City Council has declined to talk about when an investigation delving into some of its financial reporting might be finished.

If significant council funds are being directed to chambers of commerce, the money does not seem to be pouring into Queenstown’s.

It may look like southern councils are providing significant money to chambers of commerce, but the reality is different, they say.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s Cabinet reshuffle has received a mixed reception from mayors in the South, varying from praise to disappointment or scepticism.