Hamish MacLean

Otago's gallery-museum-archive development project fundraising launch on Harbour St promises to be "unique".

The Waitaki Resource Recovery Trust’s long-awaited redevelopment funding is drawing closer.

The school board chairman at the centre of a religion-in-schools stoush in Oamaru has stepped away from his roles in religious instruction and chaplaincy at the school after an independent review.

Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher has defended awarding the council's roading maintenance contract to SouthRoads.

Emergency crews clean up at a single vehicle crash near Oamaru yesterday.

The Waitaki District Council’s draft annual plan consultation document lays out roading and customer services as two council priorities for the coming year.

At his estimate of 100 haircuts a week, Ali Brosnan could have done 200,000 haircuts in his 42 years as the owner of Ali Brosnan Family Hair Care.

Intruders into yellow-eyed penguin nests are interrupting the incubation process and killing chicks.

Mainland New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguin populations are in decline, but Moeraki’s Penguin Rescue has experienced a boom year, Hamish MacLean reports.

The NZ Transport Agency is asking for feedback on an electronic warning system - and a ''variable speed limit'' of 70kmh - for the intersection of State Highway 1 and the Moeraki Boulders access road.

Pam Browne has had two life-changing experiences in the past 18 months.

A South Canterbury irrigation scheme has received development grant funding of $1,370,000 from Crown Irrigation Investments Ltd.

Waitaki district councillors have raised concerns about detail lacking in council reporting on staffing costs.

Oamaru's property market has received national attention over the past several days as media outlets have picked up on the town's inclusion in a Chinese property website top 10 list.