Oamaru primary school children are getting more active with the launch of the Walkin' n' Wheelin' programme this week.
It was all about dance at Campbell Park in North Otago at the weekend.
The occupants of a truck and trailer unit were lucky to escape serious injury in a crash at the Deborah overbridge, just south of Oamaru, on Thursday night.
Fines of more than $48,000 were imposed on North Otago dairy farmers when they appeared in the Oamaru District Court yesterday.
The Waitaki Guardians, Oamaru's community patrol, have had an increased presence in the town during the school holidays.
The Waitaki District Council may take another look at some of the issues associated with the proposed district-wide kerbside rubbish collection system.
Melbourne-based architect Virginia Ross says the restoration and redevelopment of the Oamaru Opera House is looking ‘‘fantastic''.
Security staff spent Thursday night at Beaurepaires in Oamaru after a car driven by a 16-year old Oamaru girl crashed into the building, leaving a gaping hole.
Holcim (New Zealand) Ltd would not recommend its parent company invest in a new $200 million cement plant near Weston
Sue Morton loves challenges.The North Otago woman is the face of the Oamaru Her Business Network, which was established in February last year.
Ken Mitchell has been reappointed chairman of the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust for the first six months of the next one-year term.
Waitaki residents will have an opportunity to have their say on the Waitaki District Council's draft annual plan 2008-09 over the next week.
A hearing concerning appeals to the Environment Court over consents granted to Holcim (New Zealand) Ltd to build a cement plant near Weston has been adjourned until the designation of the railway line between Waiareka and the proposed plant is resolved.
Novice flower exhibitor Wayne Shaw admits he was quite nervous before the North Otago Horticultural Society's autumn flower show at the weekend.
Didymo is disappearing, in places, in the Waitaki River.
Wes Hamilton says his Triumph Rocket 3 motorcycle personifies everything he likes in a motorcycle - it's big, shiny, has loads of chrome and "grunt to burn''.
It will be difficult to make progress on a proposal for a liquor ban in Omarama between December 28 and January 1 until next year, a report to the Ahuriri Community Board says.
World War 2 veteran Jim Brown, who celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday, was described at a birthday celebration as a ‘‘true Southern man'' who epitomised all that was good about being a New Zealander.
Debbie Devon regularly visits the spot on State Highway 1 where her 15-year-old daughter, Casey, was killed in a car crash last October.
The names of 131 service personnel from North Otago who died in World War 2 have finally been recorded at the Garden of Memories in Oamaru.