Grant Miller

A prominent by-election candidate for the Dunedin City Council has questioned its secrecy around budgets.

Dunedin is witnessing how "toothless" the city council’s code of conduct can be for managing councillor behaviour, one by-election candidate says.

Difficulties for developers in getting housing projects going in Dunedin, including working with the city council, have been discussed at a meeting.

Meetings have been held behind closed doors about how South Dunedin might best adapt to climate change in the long term.

Embattled Dunedin city councillor Benedict Ong was ejected from a council workshop because he failed to abide by the rules, the meeting’s chairman says.

Embattled councillor Benedict Ong tried to smear a witness in a conduct case he was pursuing — posing a serious risk to the Dunedin City Council’s integrity, an investigator has found.

A rent rise of 8% for Dunedin community housing tenants will put pressure on vulnerable people, residents say.

The chances of getting caught by Dunedin’s parking police will soon be significantly higher, because of new technology.

Dunedin's councillors have agreed to pour more money into Forsyth Barr Stadium to control its debt, but at least one found this "a bitter pill" to swallow.

Dunedin City Council by-election candidates are not impressed by the possibility of a 10.5% rates rise.

A field of 14 candidates will contest the Dunedin City Council by-election to pursue the seat left open by the death of councillor and former mayor Jules Radich.

Victor Billot did not offer the phrase ‘‘hate to say I told you so’’, but the stadium critic got near it.

A power vacuum in Iran could be chaotic on the ground, an Otago expert on the Middle East says.

Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is in a financially unsustainable position unless the city council puts in more funding, councillors have been told.