Tickets to a charity brunch in Cromwell with restaurateur Fleur Sullivan, and chef, author and television presenter Peta Mathias yesterday sold out in just 10 minutes.
That young people from schools around Central Otago have a strong focus on cleaning up the planet for the future was evident in their entries in the Future Central 2020 art competition
Organisers of the Alexandra Primary School Junk to Funk fair held on Saturday are over the moon with the results.
Alexandra's annual horticulture festival turned the Masonic Lodge hall into a blaze of colour on Saturday.
Searchers using a jet ski carried out a sweep of the Clutha River near Roxburgh yesterday afternoon looking for the body of the missing Dunedin teenager presumed drowned after a swimming accident on Tuesday.
Alexandra resident Dick McArthur remains in Christchurch Hospital in a stable condition after a 10m fall from his garden down a steep rocky face to the park below.
Two men from the Roxburgh Health Camp's first intake will join tomorrow's protest march in the town.
Police divers will today begin searching for the body of a Dunedin teenager presumed to have drowned in the Clutha River on Tuesday.
Police divers are in the water searching for the body of a Dunedin teenager presumed to have drowned in the Clutha River on Tuesday.
Cherry lovers will be holding out for November 18 when the first cherries of the season are due to be picked in Cromwell.
The search for a 16-year-old Dunedin youth missing, believed drowned, in the Clutha River, near Roxburgh, will continue today.
The credit squeeze is forcing at least one developer to seek a longer term in which to complete its subdivision.
Waikerikeri Valley Road residents were caught by surprise at yesterday's Central Otago District Council (CODC) hearing of an application by Shaun McLellan to subdivide land near their properties.
This year's Thyme Festival, being held in Alexandra from November 15 to 23, will provide some interesting lunchtime events along with the numerous other activities planned for the annual celebration.
One of Central Otago's main tourist attractions looks set to continue to grow in popularity over the next five years.
A former Alexandra resident has had one of his sculptures selected for an international Aarhus Exhibition in Denmark.
Central Otago Mayor Malcolm Macpherson yesterday called for a big turnout to a protest march next week, aimed at stopping the closure of the Roxburgh Health Camp.
Motorists driving on State Highway 85 near the St Bathans Loop Rd turn-off will have noticed some major changes in the landscape over the past few months.
There was a positive tone at last night's Otago Stadium Roadshow in Alexandra.
A Central Otago initiative to make apple exports more sustainable in the future has been embraced right across the country, and one year after its inception, Pipfruit New Zealand chief executive Peter Beaven said the uptake had been "outstanding".