Hundreds of people turned out to hear music from eight bands as the Penguin Entertainers Club's celebrated 25 years at Friendly Bay on Sunday.
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 North Otago Irrigation Company's $57 million expansion down the Kakanui Valley is well under way.
Oamaru's historic harbour breakwater is being repaired.
John Bean, of Oamaru, (above) was one of about 50 keen woodturners who gathered at the club houses at the Oamaru Racecourse on Saturday.
Two by two, cars rolled to the start of the Oamaru Drag Races on Saturday.
The Waitaki District Council's website is sub-standard.
People travelling south from Oamaru to Dunedin for the Fleetwood Mac concert on November 18 should factor in some extra travel time.
The Waitaki District Council does not run police background checks on new employees despite granting them the power of authority, councillors learnt this week.
A fire in 1925 has helped to shape the expansion of an Oamaru heritage luxury lodge.
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.
Despite six strong years, Waimate 50 organiser Rob Aikman is not about to take his foot off the gas.
Performing at the North Otago Schools Fiefia Evening is Anita Ridvan (6), of Fenwick School.
Could unmanned helicopters be, as their manufacturer claims, ''the future of the agriculture industry''?
No decision was made on a rates remission request at the Waitaki District Council's finance, audit and risk committee meeting yesterday.
Hauled by historic steam locomotive AB608 (Passchendaele), a train pulled into the Oamaru Railway Station with about 130 passengers on board yesterday afternoon.
Only a boycott of retailers prepared to sell psychoactive substances can put an end to the ''scourge'' of legal highs, Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan says.
Whether the proposed $4.5million Curio Bay natural heritage centre can go ahead as planned will become clear in December.
The vet who raised the alarm about the toxic nature of herbicide tolerant (HT) swedes says the plant analysis released by DairyNZ yesterday is incomplete.