Sally Rae

Good sports abound at Totara School.

Photographer Anthony McKee is delighted his first major solo exhibition, "The Oamaru Male", is back on display at the Forrester Gallery - 15 years after it was first shown in Oamaru.

It has been a big month for Kakanui artist Peter Cleverley (55), who has had his painting Fortune Teller shortlisted in the annual Wallace Art Awards.

Initiatives in the Waitaki district aimed at addressing alcohol issues may be used as a template for other communities.

When Jean Bousfield spoke to a Green Prescription co-ordinator at a health expo in Oamaru last year, she "just wanted to cry".

Think of Lake Tekapo and images of a quaint church and a bronze statue of a collie dog immediately spring to mind.

The restoration of St Luke's Church - one of Oamaru's most prominent buildings - is nearing completion.

Twenty-five police and volunteer search and rescue team members scoured the Lyttelton area yesterday but failed to find any sign of missing Christchurch man Andrew Manson.

A man with 10 previous drink-driving convictions and a woman assessed as being incapable of driving, who had two passengers in the boot of her car, were among nine people processed for drink-driving in North Otago at the weekend.

Young Oamaru man Jason Armstrong was "stoked" to be recently named the second-best domestic-commercial electrical apprentice in New Zealand.

Ask Kevin and Iris Howard the secret of a long and happy marriage and you will get a somewhat surprising answer - having two televisions.

Healey White has been playing snooker for only 10 months but he has already won two national junior titles.

Demolishing the brick junior school at Waitaki Valley School in Kurow has been completed as part of the $3.9 million redevelopment on the site.

Some unusual-looking birds ruffled a few feathers at the Oamaru Poultry Pigeon and Canary Society's 125th jubilee show at the weekend.

An ambitious high country carbon project is being investigated which, if it proves successful, those involved say could be the start of a new era for high country families, reports Sally Rae.