"What a night." Musical Theatre Oamaru president Daniel Martin expected the society to pick up some awards at the Otago Southland Theatre Awards (Ostas), but winning six - including best overall production - was "just amazing".
When Rebecca van Dijk was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer last year, she thought she would be a little bit creative and name it “Brad Pitt”.
Firefighters helped to remove an elderly Oamaru woman with serious injuries from a car involved in a two-vehicle crash in Oamaru last night.
Oamaru Hospital clinical director Dr Pragati Gautama believes Oamaru Hospital is an "excellent location" to have rural hospital medicine.
''You could call us the living dead - we feel dead inside, we don't know what we're going to do, but we're alive.''
Since November 26, 2008, 511 people facing sentence for drink-driving have been confronted in the Oamaru District Court with the tragic consequences of drink-driving as part of an innovative...
Oamaru's first closed-circuit television (CCTV) network is live.
Firefighters worked through the afternoon yesterday to battle a large blaze which ripped through hay bales on a hilltop at Parkside Limestone Quarry near Weston yesterday.
The man killed when his glider crashed northwest of Twizel during the weekend has been named.
Life in Oamaru is a world away from life in Sydney and London for Sarah Phillips.
Oamaru will tonight host Otago and Southland's answer to the Oscars.
Oamaru was the place to be for good old-fashioned family fun yesterday.
The importance of workforce literacy in boosting productivity, profitability and supporting economic growth has been recognised in a $200,000 workplace literacy grant from the Tertiary Education Commission.
The number of births in the Waitaki district is at its highest level since 1996, according to Statistics New Zealand. Rebecca Ryan takes a closer look at the numbers.
The mayors of the Waitaki, Timaru, Waimate and Mackenzie districts are "chopping down parochialism''.
The Friendly Bay Family Day this weekend will be "a good, simple family fun day'' without all "the bells and whistles'', Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.
An Oamaru grainstore is making a name for itself as an intimate music venue. North Otago reporter Rebecca Ryan took a look.
Dreaming of squeezing a round in any time you like? North Otago reporter Rebecca Ryan discovers a private Waianakarua golf course with a special story lies in wait at for the right buyer.
Librarians from all over Otago and Southland will converge on Oamaru this weekend for the annual Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (Lianza) weekend school.
A man who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl after telling her he had just murdered her sleeping mother with an axe continues to demonstrate aggressive and hostile behaviour, the Parole Board says.
