Farmers could be making an even greater contribution to the running of the Waitaki district after changes in property values in the latest revaluation for the Waitaki District Council were released yesterday.
The equivalent of the population of Oamaru crowded into the town's main street for Saturday's annual Christmas Parade.
Dire warnings about the consequences of keeping the main road to Moeraki closed were given to the Waitaki District Council when it met in the coastal township yesterday.
Duntroon School is struggling to understand why it has taken a big jump up in its decile rating, which cuts into its funding.
A fast response to the plight of Whalan Lodge has meant the Kurow rest-home can keep operating until at least the end of January.
An agreement between Heritage NZ and a North Otago farming company over historic lime kilns damaged during a dairy conversion will see money going to a project to record about 180 archaeological sites in the region.
Oamaru is to celebrate becoming the first town in the South Island to have a complete ultra-fast broadband network, and the first in New Zealand completed by contract installer Chorus.
Kurow and Hakataramea partied on Saturday, celebrating ''bridging Waitaki waters'' by two new $21 million bridges across the Waitaki River which link their communities.
The Waitaki District Council is to take another look at its gambling and TAB venues policy, including whether TAB outlets in its district should be allowed gaming machines.
Kurow consumers are having to boil their water while the Waitaki District Council investigates whether it has become contaminated.
For its 130th birthday, the Forrester Gallery is getting an upgrade that will make the most of its historic features.
The continued closure of the main street into Moeraki because it is unstable is likely to be the major issue when the Waitaki District Council visits the town on Wednesday.
An experiment yesterday with a concave make-up mirror has confirmed such a mirror caused a fire in an Oamaru house on Wednesday morning.
A solution to flooding on two roads at Totara has been allocated $70,000 by the Waitaki District Council.
A make-up mirror is believed to have caused a fire which badly damaged a house yesterday, in the second Oamaru house fire in a week.
''A lot of expressions of interest and proposals'' have been received by the Waitaki District Council for the RSA building it may inherit now the North Otago branch has decided to go into liquidation.
A decision on how to upgrade two water schemes has been delayed by the Waitaki District Council for further consultation with its 700 consumers.
A pipeline up to 40km long could be used to deliver quality water from Oamaru to about 700 consumers between Herbert and Moeraki.
Land owned by the Waitaki District Council could be sold to reduce debt in its property division.
An Oamaru woman is making a last-minute attempt to stop the destruction of 2000 frozen embryos - which she says are ''New Zealand children'' - and change they way they will be treated in future.
