For the first time, a town will enter a team in the 58-year-old Tour of Southland.
Teviot Valley is to have a new general practitioner later this year.
The future of the Clyde Railway Station is likely to involve community and commercial activities operating side by side.
A report on Fruitgrowers Rd, near Clyde, which was partly blocked by a landslip last October, will be presented to the Central Otago District Council roading committee next month.
Senior Station Officer John Kee's first callout as a volunteer firefighter was to a fire at the Finegand Freezing Works in 1989.
Poor weather did not put a damper on the Naseby Ice Festival held at the Maniototo Ice Rink on Saturday.
A different approach to holding a mountain bike race has worked well for the organiser of the event.
Ice-skaters from across the South Island gathered in Alexandra at the weekend for the Otago Southland Ice Skating Competition.
An international project mapping atmospheric waves to improve climate modelling and weather forecasting has had parts of its research conducted from the Niwa site in Lauder for the past month. Leith Huffadine reports.
Idaburn Dam duck shooters have not set their sights on Ken Gillespie - yet.
Trustees are still required to assist with managing the collections and running the Cromwell Museum.
Dave Pollard's last job was working for a defence contractor in the United Kingdom using underwater microphones to listen to passing ships and submarines.
Central Stories winter arts and crafts felting workshop participants (front from left) siblings Felix (8) and Isla (6) Morgan, of Christchurch, and workshop tutor Linda Arthur, of Alexandra, and (back from left) Central Stories arts co-ordinator Moniza Fenton, daughter Anya (8), both of Alexandra, and Kathryn Smit (11), of Clyde, show off their creations, after a session yesterday. Children at the school holiday workshop were taught felting techniques by tutor Linda Arthur, and produced felted flowers.
About $90,000 in repairs to the 107-year-old Clyde Railway Station are to start later this year.
Two roads in the Otago region are classified as high risk by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
The New Zealand Transport Agency recently released data to the Otago Daily Times detailing factors contributing to accidents on Otago's state highway network, as well as the months in which accidents occurred. Leith Huffadine took a deeper look into what the numbers mean.
Otago-based truck drivers spend hours travelling on the region's roads every day, experiencing road conditions first-hand and sometimes witnessing accidents.
Losing about 30kg of weight was the inspiration Bannockburn man Nigel Lines needed to organise a winter mountain bike race to be held near the town.
The Cromwell and Districts Promotions Group's new chairman is no stranger to the area, its community, and its goings-on.
Receiving awards for their efforts in an anti-cyberbullying competition has given two Dunstan High School pupils ammunition against naysayers.