The Department of Conservation will this morning determine if a code red warning should be issued in the Young Valley area of Mount Aspiring National Park, because heavy rain is posing a possible threat to a landslip dam.
Design work to prepare a 1.2ha subdivision application that would redevelop the Lake Tekapo foreshore has begun, and building work could start by the end of the year - if cost estimates come in on budget.
Flashing speed limit warning signs intended to reduce the incidence of motorists speeding past parked school buses could be approved for use nationally by April - almost six years after the Ministry of Transport banned them from Oamaru buses.
Rick Johnson, of Springfield, prepares his 5.5m Stinger jet-boat for a safety check ahead of today's Waitaki River Jet-boat Race on the ''challenging'' waters of the Waitaki River.
Moves will be made to convince a new government company to invest part of its $80 million irrigation budget in projects in the Waitaki.
Opponents of a parliamentary decision to clarify land at Forrester Heights in Oamaru as endowment land and not reserve land say the closure of the adjacent Cape Wanbrow recreational reserve vindicates their position.
Businesses and homeowners in central Oamaru are expected to have access to ultrafast broadband in a matter of weeks, after communication company Chorus finished installing fibreoptic cables in the central business district.
After two decades of protecting Oamaru's Victorian heritage and architecture, the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust was last night rewarded with the supreme award at the TrustPower Waitaki District Community Awards.
The estimated $1.6 million repair bill to fix a host of flooded roads in the Waitaki district is not as bad as expected.
An Oamaru policeman and a local bus operator, fed up with motorists endangering children, are calling on the Ministry of Transport to revisit its decision to ban previously unapproved flashing speed warning signs on the town's school buses.
Awakino skifield, near Kurow, will not open for business until next month because there is too much snow.
A tracking system being used in Oamaru to keep an eye on Alzheimer's patients who may be at risk of wandering off could be extended to a larger area of Otago in the future.
A rates rise of 3.9% has been officially approved in the Waitaki district.
The directors of a council-owned contracting company based in Oamaru have been given the permission to continue approving major acquisitions off their own bat, even though concerns are being raised over their ability to turn a profit.
Employees owed thousands of dollars in unpaid wages by an Oamaru medical practice that went into liquidation last month have been told they will be among the first to be paid out, but will miss out on potential redundancy claims.
Residents in the tiny East Otago farming village of Macraes were yesterday blase about the need for Monday's Civil Defence food drop, saying that despite being cut off for the best part of five days, they had things under control.
Proposals to establish a new water supply for Twizel, already estimated to cost as much as $5.6 million, may end up costing even more.
Fire drums and lashings of hot soup are being used to encourage people to take part in what is expected to be the coldest-ever Port FM Mid Winter Swim at Friendly Bay near Oamaru tomorrow.
New recruits are needed to man the understaffed St John ambulance station in Kurow, in an effort to avoid volunteer exhaustion.
Efforts will be made next week to ensure a North Otago junior netball club is not left out of pocket, after council workers ''lost'' the club's application for Sparc (sport and recreation) funding.
