{"id":215804,"date":"2026-01-04T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215804\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:09:09","slug":"former-dunedin-mayor-jules-radich-dies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215804\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4KH57QA_RNZD6171_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"jules radich\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFormer Dunedin mayor Jules Radich.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Former Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich has died.<\/p>\n<p>Radich was a councillor from 2019 to 2022, and was mayor from 2022 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He was reelected as a councillor in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker said she ws shocked and saddened by his sudden passing.<\/p>\n<p>She said his dedication and love for Dunedin was immense and he always had the city&#8217;s best interests at heart.<\/p>\n<p>The council said that as Councillor Radich was a sitting councillor, a by-election will now be triggered.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Barker said their deepest love and sympathies were with Radich&#8217;s family and friends, and the city&#8217;s flags will fly at half mast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dunedin mayor Jules Radich. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Former Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich has died. Radich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-215804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}