Funding has been approved to replace the 131-year-old twin bridges between Hakataramea and Kurow and work on two-lane bridges will start next year, Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean said yesterday.
The Waitaki District Council may get involved in securing the long-term future of North Otago television broadcaster 45 South.
A Waitaki Valley dairy farmer has defended the efficiency of the irrigation scheme he gets water from, saying he and others have spent "mega bucks" on improvements.
The short and the tall were all on display at the Omarama Airfield Open Day. Greg Clarkson, of Waimate, prepares his model radio-controlled aeroplane which contrasted with the full-sized aeroplanes and gliders that took part in displays.
A "tough" year for Waitaki District Council-owned Whitestone Contracting Ltd has resulted in a big drop in profit.
Oamaru police are trying to find a truck driver who may have witnessed the crash at Hilderthorpe on SH 1 involving Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard and his wife Jean on September 2.
Oamaru Public Library users can now avoid queuing to take out books with the installation of a new checkout machine.
"Like a comedy film" was how the plight of an Asian tourist whose car was claimed by the sea at Katiki Beach south of Moeraki on Thursday was described by a passing motorist.
The only wild population of sockeye salmon in the southern hemisphere could come under closer scrutiny with a proposal to research the fishery in the upper Waitaki lakes.
Farmers have been given a clear message to use water efficiently, with the release this week of the first Environment Canterbury resource consent decision on water use in the upper Waitaki catchment.
The future of a 40-year-old Waitaki Valley irrigation scheme could be in doubt after an Environment Canterbury resource consents decision set a five-year deadline to improve efficiency in its use of water.
"No Bridge No Vote" is a message delivered to all 121 of Parliament's MPs by Waimate Mayor John Coles on behalf of the Waitaki Bridges Lobby Group, which is pushing for urgent replacement of the twin bridges across the Waitaki River between Kurow and Hakataramea.
A proposal boiler emissions from the Pukeuri meat-processing plant north of Oamaru should be reduced has been defended by Otago Regional Council staff, but again attacked for lack of evidence by the plant's owner, Alliance Group.
The value of the Pukeuri meat-processing plant to North Otago and South Canterbury was reinforced by submissions to an Otago Regional Council panel yesterday.
An "alarmist approach" in an Otago Regional Council report on potential health effects from the Pukeuri meat plant's boilers has been criticised by plant owner Alliance Group.
"Blokes and blokesses" now have "The Shed" to work in, after a meeting in Oamaru on Saturday decided to set up a community shed in buildings offered rent-free at the Oamaru Harbour by the Waitaki District Council.
Emissions from the Pukeuri meat processing plant boiler might have to be lowered by Alliance Group if a resource consent is granted to North Otago's biggest employer.
Allan Adamson prepares daffodil blooms for the North Otago Horticultural Society's spring show held at the weekend in the Scottish Hall.
Oamaru television broadcaster 45 South fears it may cease broadcasting in April 2013 because it has no digital licence.
Hundreds of people of all ages, shapes and sizes came to Oamaru yesterday in a bid to be part of The Hobbit movie being filmed by Peter Jackson.
