Regions

Concerns about traffic safety along six short stretches of state highway in Otago and Southland, have prompted the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) to propose targeted speed limit changes.

The director of an award-winning Central Otago painting company being liquidated owing $1.6 million says he put his ‘‘heart and soul’’ into the business and is gutted he could not save it.

Some of the heavy lifting required to clean up after Oamaru’s flood was tackled by some of the Waitaki’s ‘‘bigger bodies’’.