Moeraki adventurer Tom MacTavish is returned from retracing Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic crossing of the subantarctic island of South Georgia 100 years ago. North Otago reporter Hamish MacLean caught up with him back at home.
The 10th Oamaru Stone Symposium has produced the best work the town has seen since the spring carving celebration began, the symposium's chairman Matt King says.
The Waitaki District Council does not run police background checks on new employees despite granting them the power of authority, councillors learnt this week.
Hampden's planned $145,000 stand-alone public toilet block has the final nod from the Waitaki District Council, but not before councillors again questioned whether its planned austere design was a lost opportunity for the council.