Mt Cooee is bursting at the seams, and the Clutha District Council is facing a monthly bill of $157,000 to ship waste elsewhere once the landfill reaches full capacity at the end of August.
Glorious summer lit the Tahatika Collie club trials at Lochindorb on Valentine’s Day, where veteran shepherd Jack Davis and his dog Glen set the standard early.
A ‘‘mini-Cyclone Gabrielle’’ was how local farmers described flash flooding where some of the most fearsome scenes of yesterday's downpour stormed down the Hunt Rd valley.