Rebecca Ryan

Seven of 17 available sites at the North Oamaru Business Park development have now sold.

Oamaru synthetic cannabis users appear to be now smoking incense for their cheap thrills.

News of the verdicts in the South Canterbury Finance fraud case spread quickly around the streets of Timaru yesterday.

Thrill-seekers will take on a fun run with a difference next month, as Waimate's Knottingley Park is infested with zombies.

Waitaki's Tongan community showcased their culture and thanked their supporters from throughout the district at two Tonga Day events on Friday and Saturday.

Named among the ''hippest'' destinations in the world in 2012, then crowned ''Sharpest Town'' in the country last year, Oamaru is cooler than ever in 2014, according to travel guide publisher Lonely Planet.

It was not so long ago that Wes Fry would struggle to get around a supermarket.

Waipawa shearer Cam Ferguson won his third open machines title at the 47th Waimate Shears on Saturday, seeing off five times world champion David Fagan in the final.

It is with sadness, but a deep sense of satisfaction, that Oamaru Opera House director Megan Peacock-Coyle will leave the North Otago town next month.

Eight ordinary people doing extraordinary things for the Waitaki community were recognised at the annual Citizens Awards held in the Oamaru Opera House yesterday afternoon.

A 71-year-old Oamaru man has been arrested and charged in relation to a suspicious grass fire in Duntroon last month.

Mountain Biking North Otago is ''starting from scratch'' at Cape Wanbrow, after all of its trails were destroyed when trees were felled earlier this year.

An Oamaru company is one of two in New Zealand designing a platform for the largest IT project in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope.