Dunedin

Dunedin's cycleways, not counting the city's one-way cycle lanes, have cost $4.7 million in the past two and a-half years.

The man behind a golf hole-in-one challenge at Vauxhall says his plans for the development are still ''ticking along'', despite a months'-long delay resolving an Environment Court appeal.

Frustration is growing among some St Clair residents unable to return to their homes since they were forced to evacuate last month.

Dunedin's smart new street lights will be able to double as monitoring tools, but there is no plan to use the technology.

The Dunedin Ice Stadium is expected to be closed for another month as work continues to rectify an underground ice block threatening its playing surfaces.

Two more homes in St Clair are now considered dangerous after damage from a landslip was found to have spread to another property.

The owner of a demolition yard at the centre of an investigation into missing authentic materials from Dunedin's Chinese Garden says he has done nothing wrong and has nothing to hide.

The sudden disappearance of a row of young trees from a Dunedin street only a few months after they were planted has at least one resident perplexed.

A cycle trail linking the Taieri to the rest of Dunedin through a former rail tunnel is a step closer.