The Central Otago District Council has received two submissions on Greenfield Rural Opportunities Ltd's application for retrospective land use consent for earthworks undertaken within the Mannorburn and Lake Onslow Landscape Management Area.
Arguably New Zealand's oldest newspaper delivery man and his wife were celebrated for services to their community at a surprise function in their home town of Ophir last night.
The first of Central Otago's cherries are being picked in Cromwell and growers seem set to benefit from big fruit losses in cherry orchards in other parts of New Zealand.
Central Otago deputy mayor Tony Lepper is keen to see a 300m walking track established along the Fraser River to solve the problem of access to the Earnscleugh Historic Reserve, cut when the Marshall Rd bridge was destroyed.
The building of a house near Mitchells Cottage at Fruitlands has been allowed to continue despite its owners' admission of breaching consent conditions.
Cod liver oil and molasses before breakfast, naps after lunch, and a dorm full of restless boys after dinner - such was life at the Roxburgh Health Camp in 1940.
Regardless of the outcome of today's protest march to save the Roxburgh Health Camp, the town's community will benefit from rallying around the issue, Central Otago Mayor Malcolm Macpherson believes.
Young ballet dancers learned from the best in Alexandra yesterday, when a member of the Royal New Zealand Ballet held two creative dance workshops in the town.
A Christchurch truck driver escaped unscathed from a crash early yesterday when the furniture truck she was driving rolled off State Highway 8 and slid on its side down a small river bank near Tarras.
The Alexandra Blossom Festival committee is taking longer than expected to collate post-event information about this year's festival, which finished early last month.