Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker appears set to chair the committee that monitors the performance of the city council’s chief executive.

Drink-driving tests will not hit the water in Otago, but traffic in Otago Harbour will be more closely monitored as changes arrive for boating in the region.

A former staffer says it means everything to him that a heritage building at Dunedin’s Hillside workshops has been given a second life.

At least one family are tired of being told they should shift their mother out of an embattled South Dunedin rest-home.

A wind-powered battery design and a practical solution to home security have positioned a Dunedin secondary school team of engineers among the best scientists of their age in the country.