The Waitaki Arts Festival — three weeks of events, exhibitions and performances drawn from all over New Zealand — starts on Tuesday, the hope being it will set the stage for future festivals....
For the first time the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust will restrict access to one of its reserves during breeding season in the hope an apparent increase in bird numbers in the area will continue.
An Oamaru retiree with a suspected heart condition feels "let down'' after learning she has to wait up to eight weeks for an outpatient appointment at Dunedin Hospital.
Oamaru police are asking neighbours at Awamoa Park to be vigilant after would-be thieves broke into - and tried to start and steal - two cars at Oamaru's unofficial car sale yard at the weekend.
Recreational bag limits for blue cod are some of the most liberal in the country off the Dunedin and North Otago coasts — and they could be about to drop.
Two Waitaki projects awarded $223,000 from the Government’s now closed regional and mid-sized tourism facilities fund may not meet the deadline for using the money.
People were turned away at the door at the Oamaru Opera House last night after a large crowd crammed into the old town hall for a Waitaki meet-the-candidates evening.
The plan in place to reshape care at Oamaru Hospital is flawed from its lack of input by doctors, senior doctors' union executive director Ian Powell says.
Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says he wants to look at ways for locals to have "as much access as can be permitted" to the Oamaru breakwater and the beach at Oamaru Harbour.