A youth yachting programme has been so successful that, for the first time, Oamaru is sending a team of six teenagers to Dunedin to compete in the South Island secondary schools' Sunburst championships next week.
The long-term future of Oamaru's Victorian Heritage Celebrations could be in doubt beyond next year, there being a need for more volunteers and a question mark over funding.
Oamaru's second Relay for Life is expected to attract more people than the first in 2011, when up to 1000 people were at times on Centennial Park.
There are winners and losers under the draft rates increase of 3.5% being proposed by the Waitaki District Council, some properties having increases or decreases higher or lower than the suggested rise.
North Otago farmers have revived a group which was active about a decade ago, to help address water quality issues in the province.
The sight of a feral cat confronting a yellow-eyed penguin at a Moeraki reserve has stunned an Auckland man, but the reserve says it has never lost one of the rare birds to a feline in at least the past 11 years.
Omarama residents will farewell their old memorial hall, and welcome the start of construction to remodel it into a community centre, with a picnic tomorrow.
Consumers will get a discount of between $109 and $165 on their March or April power accounts, thanks to a $2.3 million payout by Network Waitaki.
History will play a role in a special event tomorrow marking the start of construction of two new bridges across the Waitaki River between Kurow and Hakataramea.
A North Otago company wants to release grass carp fish in two irrigation canals to control aquatic weeds and algae.
"A shocking waste of taxpayers', ratepayers' and private sector capital,'' is how Waitaki District Council councillor Peter Garvan is describing the Government's proposals to upgrade earthquake-prone buildings.
The ministry hopes the new ''electronic operating model'' will revolutionise court recording, leading to a paper-less system.
A ''dramatic fall'' in diversion and restorative justice cases in the South Island has led to the Waitaki Safer Community Trust appealing to the Waitaki District Council for its help to fight for the programme.
Network Waitaki electricity line charges are increasing by an average 4.1%, but the company still expects them to be among the lowest in New Zealand.
The Waitaki District Council hit back yesterday at Government claims of ''scaremongering'' over a report on the cost of meeting its proposed earthquake-prone buildings policy.
A vacancy for a councillor in the Corriedale ward will remain empty, but its other councillor, Kevin Malcolm, is unhappy about the area having one fewer vote in the Waitaki District Council.
It was a show-stopper for Barbara Watt in Oamaru on Saturday.
When does graffiti become part of history and the heritage of a building? It is an issue two Oamaru men are grappling with.
About 250 people made the effort to get out of bed early for a re-enactment of the arrival of the Terra Nova at Oamaru Harbour 100 years ago to bring the news to the world that Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his South Pole party had died.
Morse code was in the air again in Oamaru yesterday - one of the final acts in honouring Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party of four who died on their way back from the South Pole, with four days of events believed to be the only commemoration outside the United Kingdom.
