Diane Brown

A marathon nine-hour Maniototo Community Board meeting on Thursday halved the draft 29.7% rates rise for the ward.

The Central Otago District Council has yet to receive a retrospective application for consent from Queenstown company SRL (Steve Rout Limited) for work carried out without consent last year.

Cromwell woman Jessica Roberts, found after being missing for 11 days, kept herself alive by drinking from swampy pools and sucking a water-drenched T-shirt.

One of Central Otago's better known historic sites, Mitchells Cottage reserve, will soon be bigger as the Department of Conservation adds more land.

Fruit pickers and other book lovers from around the Teviot Valley flocked to the two-day book sale held at Roxburgh on Friday and Saturday.

Electricity was cut in several streets in Alexandra about 6am yesterday, when a vehicle hit a transformer in Chicago St and knocked it off its concrete base on to the ground.

A high flow in the Clutha River on Saturday forced the cancellation of the triathlon section of the 24th Jimmy's Triathlon and Treliske Organics Duathlon at Roxburgh for only the second time in the history of the race.

Taking the advice of a psychic 100 years ago led to a farming lifestyle at Omakau for four generations of the Ball family.

International visitors and excellent accommodation have combined to make this season a great one so far for Otago Central Rail Trail operators.

After two years of planning, the Alexandra BMX Club will finally host the South Island Championships at their own cycle track this weekend.