Julie Asher

It is not quite loaves and fishes, but last year 120,000kg of leftover food was transformed into 340,000 meals across Central Lakes.

Hearings on the first major changes in 25 years to residential zoning in Central Otago began in Alexandra this week.

Reccored-low unemployment and increasing interest rates will continue to impact Central Otago for the foreseeable future, a report to the Central Otago District Council this week says.

Many of the crowd gathered to commemorate Anzac Day in Roxburgh yesterday had family connections to soldiers who had faced battle.

Bannockburn rivals the world’s top pinot noir regions and has the potential to reach super-premium markets, a visiting French winemaker and Bannockburn vineyard owner say.

New Zealand’s population grew by 17 on Friday morning when Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan swore in new citizens at a ceremony in Alexandra.

An application for a resource consent to plant pine trees for carbon farming in Central Otago has been withdrawn because of public opposition to the idea, the landowner said yesterday.

The Alexandra Blossom Festival attracted record crowds and made a profit last year, treasurer Nigel Smellie told the annual meeting last night.

There may not have been a gold medal but it was a competition of firsts for New Zealand at the world curling championships in Sweden.

Earthquakes cannot be predicted, but our response to them can.

After the fireworks surrounding the fate of the pine trees on Alexandra’s Half Mile reserve, the final decision was a damp squib.

A dream of restoring and completing a Central Otago landmark is drifting into the realms of nightmare for a couple caught up in an argument over old plans and plaster.