The family of a man killed in a crash after a rugby club celebration near Kurow has blamed the ''cowardice'' of the driver of the vehicle for dividing the community.
In the aftermath of the crash that killed a young Danseys Pass farmer, the sentencing judge said ''this is not a North Otago issue in isolation'' but rather an issue for all of New Zealand.
Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says he ''got it wrong'' after a bid to turn Harbour St, in Oamaru's Victorian Precinct, into a pedestrian-only street during summer business hours stalled.
The Waitaki District Council will make a formal request to the NZTA ''demanding urgent action'' on SH1 at Moeraki after the latest in a series of recent deaths on the highway.
For the second year in a row, Moeraki’s yellow-eyed penguin colonies have suffered a "terrible" outbreak of the mysterious disease that could threaten the species in mainland New Zealand.
White Ribbon riders have visited Waitaki Girls’ High School as part of a South Island tour highlighting respectful relationships and the end of men’s violence towards women.
An interim measure could be needed for the Moeraki Boulders turnoff while the New Zealand Transport Agency looks for the "perfect solution", Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.
A woman remains in Dunedin Hospital with "moderate, to serious, non-life-threatening injuries" after yesterday's fatal crash at Moeraki Boulders turn off on State Highway 1, police say.
The sun finally came out as Merle Bradley, of Hokitika, completed her four-day mission in a wheelchair from Lake Tekapo to Oamaru, on the Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail, smiling.
Newly-minted men’s singles stone-sawing world champion Eddie Voogt, of Oamaru, says the key to being a champion stone sawer is to "switch off" and forget about those watching.
Just 5.3% of the South-East Marine Protection Forum’s coastal area from Timaru to Waipapa Point in Southland has been proposed as marine reserves after a "controversial" two-year process.
A little-understood disease has ravaged mainland New Zealand’s two largest yellow-eyed penguin colonies this year, and the volunteers who look after the birds are "heartbroken" by the loss.