The end of council funding for the Oamaru and Waitaki Visitor Information Centre could lead to the closure of the "much-needed" resource in the historic precinct, staff have warned.

A "critical" volunteer-run community shuttle service that operates from Oamaru to Palmerston and Dunedin has been extended by a further six months and will now run until the end of September.

Hundreds of litres of stolen fuel have been recovered by police who swooped on an Invercargill address and arrested two teenagers.

Wide interest is expected in a rare parcel of vacant industrial land for sale in the premium part of Queenstown’s main industrial area.

Queenstown dominated teams shone at the recent national Gaelic champs in Wellington which 73 local Gaels club players attended.

A new bookshop at Frankton’s Country Lane is a safe place for ‘‘nerds and geeks’’, its owners say.

A mother and daughter — an oil painter and a traditional and contemporary weaver, respectively — have opened a Māori-led art studio in Queenstown’s Country Lane artisan village.