Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is calling on the Government to rethink freedom camping legislation, after a season in which large crowds overwhelmed sites and stretched facilities and patience across Otago.
Dunedin City Council staff are standing their ground when it comes to tougher restrictions on dog ownership, despite significant opposition to a requirement for dogs to be on a leash on sports fields.
A Dunedin man is incensed after finding his vehicle ticketed again for parking infringements outside his Caversham home.
The Prime Minister has pulled out of attending Waitangi. Mr Key has just announced he will not attend after failing to get a response from the marae to his concerns about an attempt to prevent...
Ethical investment has come with a price tag of more than $380,000 for Dunedin's Waipori Fund.
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman tried to draw a line under the Dunedin Hospital food controversy by sampling the meals at a hastily arranged luncheon yesterday.
We don't do constitutional reform very well in New Zealand.
Bunnings management has "put its foot down'' and forced its Dunedin staff to gift the store's defibrillator to a community group.
Prime Minister John Key says he is disappointed New Zealanders have voted to keep the current flag but has promised his Government will not revisit the issue.
A Dunedin hunter who called 111 after spotting a fire near his Waitaki Valley camp this summer was shocked to receive a $60,000 invoice from the Otago Rural Fire Authority this week.
Labour has announced a multi-billion dollar plan to provide every New Zealander with three years of free tertiary education.
Public confidence in the hearing process for Otago's new water plan could be undermined by restrictions that prevent Fish and Game from making submissions on a key consent hearing.
A fight is brewing over public access to Dunedin's Chisholm Links golf course after its board called on the city council to ban non-golfers.
As a short-lived rainstorm passed over Dunedin last night, about 150 South Dunedin residents gathered for a meeting about the lasting effects of another storm that hit almost exactly nine months ago.
An Australian couple are ‘‘horrified and disgusted'' their 18-year-old French au pair was locked in a police cell overnight and then deported by immigration officials at Queenstown Airport who were...
The reason why most big decisions are not left to referendums has become blindingly clear over New Zealand's flag debate.
Veteran food writer Charmian Smith agreed to taste-test the meals that have prompted dozens of meals on wheels cancellations. Health reporter Eileen Goodwin was on hand to gauge her response.
A proposed Dunedin supermarket specialising in fresh food and a market atmosphere should not go ahead, a council planner says.
A long-abandoned 144-year-old railway tunnel beneath Roseneath has been floated as an alternative route for a section of the proposed Dunedin to Port Chalmers separated cycleway.
After years of conflict and compromise over the proposed cycleway for Dunedin's one-way traffic system, cyclists and business owners alike have greeted the final plan with guarded optimism.
