Blood was spilt, organs were sorted and sheep were counted at the Oamaru Showgrounds yesterday.
Owners of stolen items sought Detective Warren Duncan, of Oamaru, (pictured) wants to see some stolen items returned to their rightful owners.
Oamaru finally has its blue disabled car parks.
Holy Name Parish priest Fr Mark Chamberlain will consult lawyers and supporters this week before deciding whether to apply for resource consent to remove the altar from the chapel at the former Teschemakers Catholic girls' boarding school near Oamaru.
A woman and her 3-year-old son were taken to Oamaru Hospital at about 6.30pm last night after a single-vehicle crash mid-way between Kurow and Otematata.
A 109-year-old engine from the historic gold stamp battery at Macraes mine will undergo extensive repairs for the first time.
Labour Weekend marks 125 years since members of the Oamaru Rowing Club began rowing in Oamaru Harbour. Ben Guild takes a look at some important developments in the club's history.
A female pedestrian was taken to Oamaru hospital with head injuries about 4.10pm yesterday after she was struck by a north-bound truck near the corner of Thames Highway and Clare St.
Colin Hitchcox, of Oamaru, had mixed emotions yesterday morning as a crane lifted his fire-ravaged 1966 Bedford bus from his mother's France St property.
The League of Victorian Imagineers' third exhibition, called "Steampunk: Tomorrow as it used to be", was launched at a street party (above) outside the Forrester Gallery in Oamaru on Saturday night.
About 60 people attended a public meeting of Waitaki candidates at the RSA Hall in Oamaru on Saturday.
Replacing the Humber St bridge in Oamaru is likely to cost $200,000 more than first anticipated.
Spring may have officially sprung on September 1, but that is of little consequence to the organisers of the second annual Centrewood Spring Fete, to be held today.
Revisionist history of a slightly odd variety looks set to take over Oamaru's main street tomorrow.
Some of Australasia's finest racing cars are set to tear through the wide streets of Waimate during the McKeown Petroleum Waimate 50 at Labour Weekend.
Blair Grant is the fastest kid on his block.
North Otago Rugby Union chief executive Colin Jackson is hailing the Waitaki Golden Oldies Rugby Festival a success despite its failure to deliver what was originally planned.
A 29-year-old Chinese man has been charged with careless driving causing injury after the collision of two vehicles at Pukeuri on Tuesday afternoon.
Police are looking for man who falsely identified himself as a dog control officer named Bob.
Alternatively looking east and west on Saturday afternoon from the grass bank separating Centennial Park's outer fields from Whitestone Contracting Stadium was an exercise of pure contradiction.