Mary Williams

3 days ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinA motel is shutting its doors to Dunedin’s homeless people next month, saying providing rooms for them has been a "massive drain" on the owners. The news follows a fire at the Oval on Friday, which destroyed a shack and tents where homeless people have been sleeping.

5 days ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams |Laine Priestley

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinA homeless man says it is "hard to feel hope" after his makeshift shack burned down at the Oval in a cooking fire. City leaders said the fire, and the plight of other people living in tents at the Oval, was symptomatic of a desperate shortage of government funding for housing and wrap-around support for the city’s homeless.

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

A call for Dunedin to invest heavily in achieving its zero carbon plan has been backed by 150 Dunedin residents. A collective submission was sent by the residents to Dunedin City Council in response to the council’s draft nine-year plan. The submission contained a raft of strongly-worded commentary about the need for the plan to invest in zero carbon planning, including one resident saying the "can had been kicked down the road" far enough. Another said the council should "stop fluffing about".

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

Swimmers should be wary of taking a dip where wastewater flows into a Queenstown river, a council-commissioned report indicates. The report was included in an application being made by Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) seeking retrospective consent under the Resource Management Act for release of treated sewage into the Shotover River, which started on March 31.

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinA Dunedin river sits at death’s door, hidden from sight and needing rescue for more than a century. In a two-part series, Mary Williams walks the long-polluted stream from source to estuary and talks to people who care and care less.