Otago Daily Times:

Just over a week after the fire which destroyed their Ranfurly home and two business premises, Dick and Janet Parker are busy getting on with life.

About 12ha of mature pine trees on the Glen Eden and Glen Warren reserves in Oamaru will be harvested by the Waitaki District Council, as the council cashes in on rising timber prices.

A 48-year-old woman is due in Invercargill District Court on Friday to face an assault charge after she was allegedly involved in a confrontation at a rural school yesterday.

Otago's window for receiving enough rainfall to ease the dry conditions and provide needed grass growth, is closing fast.

Breaking the culture of silence in Kaitangata is something organisers of Tuesday night's public meeting in the town are hoping for.