Tenders have closed for prime commercial and industrial land in central Oamaru, the last business link with the Gillies family which played a major role in the town's development from the 1920s.
Source consents for the Kurow and Otematata sewage treatment plants will come under Environment Canterbury scrutiny at an Oamaru hearing this week.
Tenders have closed for prime commercial and industrial land in central Oamaru, the last business link with the Gillies family which played a major role in the town's development from the 1920s.
The Waitaki District Council is still preparing its response to a High Court challenge by the Environmental Defence Society over resource consents and compliance certificates approved for new dairy farms in the Ohau and Omarama areas.
Waitaki district councillors want the issue of freedom camping investigated urgently, despite a recommendation it tread carefully.
Are penny farthings wheeling around central Oamaru the answer for tourism promotion, some Waitaki District Council councillors want to know.
The annual country music hoedown is moving up-country to Omarama. It has become so popular it needs a bigger venue.
Cyclists of all calibres will be able to compete in a new style of bike-racing being introduced in North Otago.
Waitaki First has been there before when it comes to government intervention in Environment Canterbury's management of water.
The birth of the campervan 60 years ago is being celebrated with a 14-day South Island rally by about 60 Volkswagen owners set to turn out in their Kombis.
Oamaru's airport resembled a busy international airport yesterday when 65 planes carrying 180 crew landed and took-off as part of a New Zealand air safari.
"Good news, bad news" was the tone of Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust chairman Phil Hope's annual report to members recently.
A new allocation limit for the North Otago volcanic aquifer will eventually be set by the Otago Regional Council, which is likely to increase the amount of groundwater available for irrigation and other uses.
Environment Canterbury chief executive Bryan Jenkins wants to keep his job after the Government on Tuesday sacked the 14-member elected council he is responsible to.
The decision to dump Environment Canterbury, announced yesterday by Minister for the Environment Nick Smith and Minister for Local Government Rodney Hide, followed a damning report prepared by a Government-appointed review team headed by former deputy prime minister Wyatt Creech.
Former Environment Canterbury councillor June Slee said yesterday she was delighted by the announcement ECan had been sacked.
An elderly man died in Dunedin Hospital yesterday after his car and a logging truck collided on State Highway 1 at Reidston, about 1km north of Maheno.
People are being urged to turn out in force for an Otago Regional Council public meeting tonight to discuss water allocation from two North Otago aquifers.
Increased transmission capacity is needed in the Waitaki district to meet a growing demand for electricity in and around Oamaru and the lower Waitaki Valley.
The Waitaki District Council is the latest authority grappling with the issue of freedom camping after a request a bylaw be introduced to control it.
