Hamish MacLean

The Waitaki District Council unanimously approved a $1,435,000 upgrade of the council’s museum and archives in Thames St yesterday as the council moved ahead with standalone upgrades of its two...

Increased interest in Oamaru Airport has pushed forward infrastructure plans at the Waitaki District Council facility.

The Waitaki Resource Recovery Trust’s income has nose-dived after the collapse of global recycling markets — but the trust says it is confident that markets are recovering and it will again return...

The Otago Chamber of Commerce has warned against restrictive heritage zoning in Oamaru’s town centre.

Another $2.7 million would be required to complete the Waitaki District Council staff’s preference for fitting out Oamaru’s Forrester Gallery, North Otago Museum, and Waitaki District Archives.

Change required at the Waitaki Boys’ High School hostel has been described as "urgent" and the Ministry of Education has confirmed a new low predicted for the roll at the school next year.

A man sustained a broken leg after an unoccupied small truck hit him in Moeraki this afternoon.

Gone are the Hitchcockian scenes of red-billed gulls swirling over Oamaru’s town centre at dusk.

As public concern about a proposed ocean outfall at Glenavy grows, the company behind the plan has called a public meeting at Waimate.

The 1884 Sumpter Wharf in Oamaru Harbour, home to the world’s largest colony of Otago shags, has been inspected by Bluff-based Bay Underwater Services NZ, the Waitaki District Council has confirmed.

Not all the memories that stand out for the veterans of the 50-year-old Hampden Volunteer Fire Brigade are those they like to talk about.

An Oamaru fuel company ordered to dig up underground storage tanks after an investigation into a suspected fuel leak at Oamaru Harbour has done so - and McKeown Group Ltd believes it has been...

A second application for the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark's Unesco aspirations will be submitted to Paris on Monday, Waitaki Whitestone Geopark Trust executive manager Gerard Quinn has confirmed.

An expanding Glenavy dairy plant wants to build a 7.5km pipeline to discharge treated wastewater to future-proof its current land-based wastewater disposal.

The Waitaki District Council failed to meet a self-imposed deadline for the release of public information this week.

Looking for a first job was different not that long ago. But youth today - and the world today - work differently, Oamaru's The Business Hive director Cara Tipping Smith says.

A Goodwood Rd resident is concerned that a slip-damaged, one-lane section of the road is an accident waiting to happen.