Hampden's planned $145,000 stand-alone public toilet block has the final nod from the Waitaki District Council, but not before councillors again questioned whether its planned austere design was a lost opportunity for the council.
Despite six strong years, Waimate 50 organiser Rob Aikman is not about to take his foot off the gas.
Performing at the North Otago Schools Fiefia Evening is Anita Ridvan (6), of Fenwick School.
Could unmanned helicopters be, as their manufacturer claims, ''the future of the agriculture industry''?
No decision was made on a rates remission request at the Waitaki District Council's finance, audit and risk committee meeting yesterday.
Hauled by historic steam locomotive AB608 (Passchendaele), a train pulled into the Oamaru Railway Station with about 130 passengers on board yesterday afternoon.
Only a boycott of retailers prepared to sell psychoactive substances can put an end to the ''scourge'' of legal highs, Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan says.
Whether the proposed $4.5million Curio Bay natural heritage centre can go ahead as planned will become clear in December.
The vet who raised the alarm about the toxic nature of herbicide tolerant (HT) swedes says the plant analysis released by DairyNZ yesterday is incomplete.
Two sites of significance to Maori on the Clutha Gold Trail were blessed this week ''to let the past be comfortable with us coming through''.
Searchers looking for two Owaka friends who failed to return from a fishing trip have today found some 'flotsam' from the pair's boat.
Today could be the last day searchers look for the two Owaka friends who did not return from a fishing trip last week.
Two Oamaru women who wanted to raise awareness of the lives of impoverished people, failed to go the distance, but say they no longer take their Kiwi lifestyle for granted.
When the new rest home in Tapanui opens later this year, it will make West Otago Health one of the biggest employers in the West Otago area.
The families of the two Owaka friends lost at sea were overwhelmed by the turnout at the memorial service held in the small Catlins community yesterday.
A New Zealand Racing Board objection to the Waitaki District Council's proposed gambling venues policy has not dissuaded councillors from sticking with it.
A new loo is in the works for Hampden, but not before Waitaki district councillors got into a wee debate over the aesthetic merit of the proposed design.
A small Waireka Valley community took a big step towards owning its own water supply this week.
Picking ''guinea pig lollies'', also known as dandelions, are (from left) Pippa McMillan (4), of Weston, Little Wonders Oamaru manager Pip Cleverley and Summer Brosnan (4), of Weston.
Chris Watson says he will be more wary after an attack by two dogs left him with puncture marks on his arm and a ''big cut'' from a bite that went to the bone on his shin.
