At the age of 83 Jeanette Aker is still teaching at an Oamaru high school and has managed to squeeze in a marathon on the other side of the world.

The man who died in a car crash a fortnight ago is being remembered as a family man who had a lasting impact on cricket in the region. 

Speculation is rife about whether the Waitaki District Council will look north, south or west — or to all three — when it comes to amalgamation.

A North Otago floral artist was "very surprised" to win a top award at the Floral Art Society of New Zealand’s (FASNZ) recent "Threads of Floral Legacy" conference.

Waitaki Boys’ High School students are hoping to get drivers to slow down before and after school.

An event aiming to give North Otago musicians the opportunity to showcase their original song-writing is "a bit magical", an organiser says.

Hundreds of people have crammed into Bookarama’s new location, Eveline Church hall in Thames Highway for the Rotary Club of Oamaru’s popular annual second-hand book sale that began last Friday.