A pregnant woman suffered injuries thought to be serious after the car she was travelling in rolled on the Waitaki plains, north of Oamaru, yesterday afternoon.
Bevan Crombie, the managing director of New Zealand’s largest distributor of natural health products, has a reputation in Oamaru as a gentleman and a businessman.
New rules and an increasing workload are stretching the Waitaki District Council’s building team, despite the council employing "more staff than ever", Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.
Responsible cat ownership and whether keeping bees and roosters in town should be allowed are some of the issues the Waitaki District Council could tackle in a bylaw review under way.
Workers owed money for rest breaks and overtime at an Oamaru meat works have won an ''overdue and well-deserved'' victory, the Otago Southland Meat Workers' Union president says.
Getting "the basics" right, job growth and attracting families to the Waimate district will be Waimate Mayor Craig Rowley’s goals for the next three years.