After a $2.5million upgrade, the transformation of the former Stringer and Co building at the corner of Thames and Eden Sts into a 15-room "upper end" boutique hotel is nearly complete.
An Oamaru woman who started a Givealittle page for the victims of Reed St's Boxing Day house fire says she has never met the family who lost "everything'', but says the fire was "a bit too close to home''.
The gaping hole in a Weston road - damage from heavy November rain - will cost $300,000 to repair, Waitaki District Council assets group manager Neil Jorgensen says.
Zero nests next year. That's the goal for the rooftop at Countdown Oamaru after two years of problem-level numbers of red-billed gulls nesting atop the supermarket.
With 878 responses to the Oamaru Harbour survey and more than 40 written submissions, the Waitaki District Council has received more feedback than ever as it begins work on its masterplan for the...