Rosie Manins

Hopes for a national bonspiel on the Idaburn dam at Oturehua are melting as fast as the ice, with warm weather forecast for the next few days.

A new era at the Roxburgh Children's Health Camp has begun.

Police are clamping down on boy racers, determined to prevent them becoming a widespread problem.

Alexandra man Dick McArthur, who was seriously injured in a fall last November, has returned to the town from a rehabilitation unit at Christchurch.

A group of Maniototo residents has been granted $240,000 to help spark community initiatives.

Pisa Moorings resident Bevan Flannery is feeling lucky after escaping unscathed from a whirlwind which whipped through an area north of Cromwell yesterday.

Free curling, ice skating, and natural luge lessons made Naseby the place to be during the weekend.

Home detention is now an available sentence for people convicted of crimes within Central Otago, but judges have yet to use the new penalty. However, eight offenders have received the related sentence of community detention. Rosie Manins investigates the new sentencing options.

Roxburgh Children's Health Camp officials were celebrating last night after a government funding boost staved off the camp's closure and secured more than 40 jobs.

Ettrick woman Lily Gall has more life experience than most.

Englishwoman Heather Kinsey never thought she would leave the peaceful Central Otago community of Lauder, but a life free of local-body politics beckons.

Poolburn's only pub has been sold to a New Zealand couple.

Upland Landscape Protection Society members have paid some of the liquidated society's debt, although it is still not known whether the society will be able to pay its way out of liquidation.

The tables were turned on pupils at Poolburn School yesterday, when their school was one of the few to open in snow-affected Central Otago.