Hamish MacLean

The Ministry of Education's nearly five-year statutory intervention at Waitaki Boys' High School is at an end.

An investigator is en route to a property north of Milton after the Milton Volunteer Fire Brigade put out a small fire in a bedroom this morning.

The Waitaki District Council is poised to approve a 2.96% rates rise in the coming 2019-20 annual plan after the council approved a draft plan with very few changes to spending already programmed.

Waitaki ratepayers could end up on the hook for climate change-related costs, Waitaki District Council chief executive Fergus Power has warned.

The Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony is expected to net a profit of more than $1 million this year - a 25% increase on last year.

Upcoming harbour projects could require the Waitaki District Council to take on an external loan for the first time in five years, council documents show.

The Waitaki District Council is in breach of its consent for the breakwater in Oamaru Harbour as it allows public access to the 1872 Heritage New Zealand category 1 structure, the Otago Regional...

Treated wastewater from Moeraki will no longer be discharged on the beach near the Moeraki Boulders.

The Waitaki Whitestone Geopark Trust has had interest expressed from as far afield as Auckland in its call for trustees.

New membranes have been ordered for the Oamaru water treatment plant to address "membrane fouling'' and a reduction in the plant's ability to treat water.

A suspected 20 million-year-old fossilised whale, which for the past 12 years has been lying in an Oamaru backyard, could now help answer questions about a "dark age''.

A motorcyclist died in a four-vehicle crash on the Waitaki River bridge shortly before noon yesterday.

Inappropriate "highly visible alterations" to an Oamaru commercial building have been stopped.

An apparent arboricide application at Oamaru's 1876 public gardens may have failed to fell several mature gum trees at "Milligans Corner", the Waitaki District Council says.

Up to $5 million could be injected into the Waitaki economy after the New Zealand Airline Academy inked a training deal with budget carrier AirAsia India this week.

Waitaki District Council contractors work on the council's recently acquired Thames St property to ''fine-tune'' best practice for maintenance and repairs on Oamaru's heritage limestone buildings.