Leith Huffadine

The cheapest Queenstown accommodation Cromwell i-Site staff could find on Monday was a $1400-a-night apartment.

A Fulton Hogan employee has had a leg amputated after a workplace accident at the Roaring Meg hydro generation site on Wednesday morning.

Each year, a dedicated group of volunteers wakes early on Christmas Day, heads to the Alexandra Bowling Club, and gets to work in the kitchen.

Saturday dawned grey and windy in Cromwell, and it was quiet as people gathered at the college auditorium for the funeral of Rachel Clark.

An Alexandra event organiser is questioning the validity of events held in the town during the new year period after ''disappointing'' turnouts.

Cavalcade organisers are concerned about the conditions in Central Otago ahead of this year's event, which is due to start on February 21.

Whether you ride a Harley or a Honda, believe in American engineering or Asian technology, there will be something for any motorcycle enthusiast at Bike Week in Bannockburn.

Ella Davidson, of Roxburgh, is the only South Islander named as a finalist in the New Zealander of the Year awards for 2015.

Central Otago talent impressed the nearly 1000 people who attended the Bannockburn Music Festival on Saturday.

The New Zealand Women's team has claimed bronze at the Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships at Naseby.

BMX racing is exhilarating, fast, in control and out of control.

Justin Stott won the Lake Dunstan Cycle Challenge yesterday, but he was not first over the line.

It is not often a young athlete gets to rub shoulders with a world champion - or a double world champion.

Clearing Aronui Dam has been a DIY community effort, according to the man who helped co-ordinate the work.

In six days' time, up to a year of planning and organising will come to fruition as the first musician plucks a guitar, beats a drum or sings the first notes of a song.

The largest field for the South Island BMX Titles meeting in the last 10 years will take to the Alexandra BMX track this weekend.

Stewart McKnight has travelled around the world representing New Zealand in cricket and curling. Central Otago reporter Leith Huffadine talks to him about his experiences.

Funds raised by the Bannockburn Music Festival later this month will be given to the Rachel Clark Memorial Trust.

Burnt orange police highway patrol car chases a bright orange Lamborghini Huracan around a motorsport racetrack while film crews and photographers catch the action.

Forty-four gallon drums full of honey helped fuel a blaze which burned down a beekeeping building near Alexandra on Saturday.